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STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW YORK
DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
450 CLARKSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11203
AREA CODE 212 270-1000
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Department of Surgery
Sept. 6, 1967
Dr. Karel B. Absolon
2714 West 10 Street
Amarillo, Texas
Dear Doctor Absolon:
Thanks for your letter of August 28. My congratulations to you on
your myocardial infarctectomy. This seems like a most intriguing idea.
I went over the material of Dr. Gordon Murray, knowing that he had
resected some infarcts in the late 1940's. Unhappily, the hospital in Toronto
had been moved between that time and the last year or two. Although all of
the charts are apparently available, the cross-indexing system somehow fell
afoul of misfortune and was lost in the move. The result has been that Dr.
Gordon Murray has been unable to find the cases in question. It seemed to
Dr. Wangensteen that it probably was better not to publish a reappraisal
article if no solid information was to be forthcoming.
At the University Surgeons meeting in February, 1967, Dr. Heimbecker
and associates, including Gordon Murray, published a paper on resection of
acute infarcts, including a series of patients handled in this fashion. I believe
the background which you would like to find would be most effectively dug up
by starting with that particular paper. It should have appeared in the August
issue of SURGERY.
With best regards, I remain,
Very sincerely yours,
Clarence Dennis, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Surgery
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COLLEGE OF MEDICINE * SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES * UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL * COLLEGE OF NURSING * COLLEGE OF HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIONS