Fields of Investigation in Favaloro University

Experimental acute myocardial infarction in monkeys

Ultrastructural study and effects of revascularization

Myocardial revascularization in angina post acute myocardial infarction

Myocardial revascularization in patients with severe ventricular dysfunction

Prospective and randomized study: intermediate syndrome and progressive angina (medical vs. surgical treatment)

Dura mater prostheses (hemodynamic research and development)

Angina of recent onset

Ventricular function in patients operated on during an acute myocardial infarction

Dosage of cyclic AMP in human myocardium. Comparative study among patients with and without coronary artery disease

Effect of acid base status on the contractility of papillary human muscle

Inotropic study and Frank Starling law in atrial fibrillation

Intraoperative study with strain-gauge and "in vitro" with aleatory stimulation

Electron microscopy in ischemic myocardiopathy

Angiographic classification. Error evaluation in the angiographic diagnosis

Vascular stenosis. Diameter vs. cross-sectional area relation in geometrical model of vascular lesions

Nomogram at bedside for hemodynamic approach to heart disease patient

Theoretical model for the pathophysiology of the total artificial heart and the mathematical approach for its experimental proof

The preload as geometrical determinant sector of the afterload

Critical analysis on the ejection fraction

Mathematical demonstration of the sequential lengthening of PR interval and shortening of RR interval during Wenckebach periodicity

Total artificial heart. Hemodynamic studies

Intraventricular impedancimetry. P-Z and P-V loops on line

Surgical treatment of induced ventricular tachycardia

Sonomicrometry. Left wall thickness in normal and ischemic heart. Intraventricular diameter in normal and ischemic heart. Left ventricular dimensions of transplant heart

Cardiac output meter using a pneumotachograph in the diastolic cycle and air pressure variations during the systolic cycle.
PV Diagrams as an index of ventricular function in real time

Predimensional loops relating intraventricular pressure, anterior wall thickness and posterior wall thickness and intraventricular diameter, anterior wall thickness and posterior wall thickness

An analysis of myocardial ischemia dysfunction utilizing the relationship among pressure diameter and wall thickness in the conscious dog

Experimental coronary spasm and enzyme release

Triaxial graphics as an aid to understanding left ventricular function. Analysis of signals

Impedance pressure diagrams (P-Z-D)

End-systolic function by impedancimetry

Development of a mechanical prosthetic valve and of an oxygenator.