A $219,638 appropriation has been made by the Louisiana Heart Association for scientific studies of diseases of the heart and circulation for the fiscal year which begins tomorrow.
/Dr. Cyril T. Yancy of Monroe, LHA president, said this
record amount is 53 per cent of the association's 1960-61 budget.
"We believe the citizens of the
state can take real pride in these research activities," Dr. Yancey said. "Louisiana in the next 12 months will continue to have a leading role in heart research as our citizens battle our nation's and Louisiana's most menacing health enemy." Senior Research
The $219,638 compares with 5159,275 spent last year for the same work. This was 47 per cent of the 1959-60 budget.
A major portion of the allocation— $97,869—will be used for 20 senior research grants-in-aid. Tu-lane university's school of medicine will have 10, Louisiana State university six, the Veterans' Ad-miinstration hospital three, and Ochsner Foundation hospital one.
Other items among the appropriations are $79,005 to directly support the national research programs of the American Heart Association, $18,643 for student research fellowships and $12,975 for J. Walter Libby research fellowships. Becipients Follow
These research studies will
range from the effect of hormones on heart disease to what happens to patients during open hear tsurgery, and from what causes rheumatic fever to earlier detection of heart disease.
The grants and recipients are as follows:
At Veterans Administration Hospital
Dr. Emanuel H. Bresler, assistant director, professional services for research, and Dr. John N. Bickers, chief resident in medicine, $4800 to investigate some, of the factors in blood clotting which may be responsible for the closing off of blood vessels in various diseases.
Dr. Leo G. Horan. chief, cardiology section, $3710 to find, out how the electrical signal for the "heart beat is conducted from one set of heart chambers to the other set, especially in certain forms of heart disease.
Dr. Philip Pizzolato, assistant chief,
clinical laboratory, $4755 to study to
what extent hardening Of the arteries
changes the rhythm of the heart beat.
At Louisiana State Unversity
School of Medicine
Dr. Mohammad Atik, assistant professor of $6000 to investigate kidney injuries caused by temporary interruption of the blood supply during certain operations.
Dr. Gerald S. Berenson, associate professor of medicine, and Dr. Arthur F. Fishkin, instructor in biochemistry and medicine, $12,646 to continue studies of the chemistry of connective tissues, including the heart and blood vessels, in relation to the development of heart disease.
Dr. C, Y. Bowers, assistant professor of medicine $8631 to continue a study of the way hormones move fats from fatty tissues into the blood of humans and animals.
Dr. Richard L, Fowler, head of the department of pediatrics, $3100 to de-
sign and, construct a biopsy catheter, an instrument which will remove a segment of the inner lining of the heart in order to diagnose some obscure cases of heart disease.
Dr. Paul M. Hyde, assistant professor of bioch- 335 to study) how methyl-androstenediol,. an artificial hormone, produces high blood pressure in animals.
Dr. Francis A. Puyau, assistant professor of pediatrics, $1489 to continue! a study to help understand the biochemical alterations in patients during open-heart surgery.
At Ochsner Foundation Hospital
Dr. Charles B. Moore, cardiology section, $4500 to evaluate the effect of long-term anticoagulating drugs and to devise a simple laboratory test which will make the use of these drugs safer.
At Tulane University School of Medicine
Dr. Charles L. Brown Jr., instructors in medicine, $3907 to investigate the use of fluorescent materials ii detecting the presence of antibodies on red blood cells in certain types -of anemias.
Dr. William L. Chapman, research fellow in surgery, $2775 to study the exchange of gas in the lungs as related to blood flow, both in animals and in patients undergoing heart surgery.
Dr. Joseph F.' Dingman, associate professor of medicine, $3975 to study the effect of oxytocin, a pituitary hormone, on the regulation of blood pressure and excretion of salt I Dr. Albert L. Hyman, associate professor of clinical medicine, $4590 to devise a safer and simpler way to diagnose deformities of the heart ■ bv placing hydrogen in the blood and detecting it with -platinum electrodes
Dr. Edward McC. Peebles, associate orofessor of anatomy, and Dr. Homer JOrgis, associate professor of anatomy and clinical neurosurgery. $5194 to study variations in the arteries of the brain by radiological and clinical methods in an attempt to find a method of .earlier diagnosis of cerebral defects
Dr. J. U. Schlegel. professor of urology, $3140 to conduct further studies of diagnoses and treatment of kidney diseases as a cause of high blood
Dr. Robert J. Schramel, assistant professor of surgery, $5845 for investigation of the use of the heart-lung machine to replace the lungs on a long-term basis.
Dr. W. J. gtuckey. assistant professor of medicine. $4231 to study bone marrow function, (the production of blood) in healthy infants and adults and in those who suffer from cancer infection and anemia
Turner, professor of medicine, $4000 to continue a study of fat and fat-Jike substances in the blood nvary in susceptibility to arterial disease because of sex, hereidty; or the presence of certain diseasesDr. Alan G. C. White. professo* of biochemistry $2245 to determine -tne role of arginine. an ammo aci^- xln the growth of beta hemolytm.-Streptococci—which are implicated W rheumatic fever. PHOTO: ACCEPTING A GIANT CHECK representing $219,638 to be spent by the Louisiana Heart Association for research studies during 1960-61 is DR. ROBERT-J. SCHRAlMEL, right, Tulane heart researcher. The check is presented by HENRY J. MILTENBERGER, treasurer of the heart association.
