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ne of the great anguishes in medicine is its inability to treat right heart failure... an absence of understanding how the normal right ventricle... functions. Conventional views hold... a 400-year-old belief that the right ventricle compresses like ""a""... But... that... only accounts for 20% of the... pumping... The shortening of the septum... produces 80% of its function. ...Torrent-Guasp’s ""helix and wrap""... model clarifies why... odern 3-D imaging confirms that the septum portion of the helix... twists to pump... from the right ventricle to the lungs... In animal testing, we further verified .
- Gerald Buckberg

ne of the great anguishes in medicine is its inability to treat right heart failure... an absence of understanding how the normal right ventricle... functions. Conventional views hold... a 400-year-old belief that the right ventricle compresses like ""a""... But... that... only accounts for 20% of the... pumping... The shortening of the septum... produces 80% of its function. ...Torrent-Guasp’s ""helix and wrap""... model clarifies why... odern 3-D imaging confirms that the septum portion of the helix... twists to pump... from the right ventricle to the lungs... In animal testing, we further verified .
- Gerald Buckberg

ne of the great anguishes in medicine is its inability to treat right heart failure... an absence of understanding how the normal right ventricle... functions. Conventional views hold... a 400-year-old belief that the right ventricle compresses like ""a""... But... that... only accounts for 20% of the... pumping... The shortening of the septum... produces 80% of its function. ...Torrent-Guasp’s ""helix and wrap""... model clarifies why... odern 3-D imaging confirms that the septum portion of the helix... twists to pump... from the right ventricle to the lungs... In animal testing, we further verified .
- Gerald Buckberg

ne of the great anguishes in medicine is its inability to treat right heart failure... an absence of understanding how the normal right ventricle... functions. Conventional views hold... a 400-year-old belief that the right ventricle compresses like ""a""... But... that... only accounts for 20% of the... pumping... The shortening of the septum... produces 80% of its function. ...Torrent-Guasp’s ""helix and wrap""... model clarifies why... odern 3-D imaging confirms that the septum portion of the helix... twists to pump... from the right ventricle to the lungs... In animal testing, we further verified .
- Gerald Buckberg

Understanding Paco’s ""helix and wrap"" structure solves this problem. ...e found that suction accounts for most of filling ... during the first 1/3 of the period when the heart relaxes... caused by how the figure-eight helix arms and its surrounding wrap interact. ...hen the ventricle’s pumping ...during a heartbeat lasts longer than it is supposed to... his shortens the available time for suction to fill... diastolic dysfunction develops. ...e found ...calcium influences contraction and relaxation ... ...uniquely prevented calcium buildup. ...he ...pharmacological trial ...failed after the manufacturer disregarded advice from the study’s steering committee. ...Diastolic dysfunction’s cause and curative drug are neither taught in medical school, nor... known by... cardiologists...
- Gerald Buckberg

Paco Torrent-Guasp’s revelation of the heart’s authentic structure finally explains... stretching during heart failure causes the heart’s normal elliptical shape to become spherical . This geometric alteration rearranges the heart muscle pathways so the natural helix figure-eight pattern now becomes horizontal. ...he spherical heart loses its normal ability to twist, which markedly reduces its contraction power, causing fatigue and breathlessness. ...Conventional treatments that only remedy diseased narrowed arteries or leaky valves do not restore... function correctly. ...Normality can only be returned by restoring the... shape... Paco’s helical heart... became my guide, leading to a new procedure called ""Pacopexy""... functional improvement... not... possible without... ventricular restoration to rebuild normality.
- Gerald Buckberg

Paco Torrent-Guasp’s revelation of the heart’s authentic structure finally explains... stretching during heart failure causes the heart’s normal elliptical shape to become spherical . This geometric alteration rearranges the heart muscle pathways so the natural helix figure-eight pattern now becomes horizontal. ...he spherical heart loses its normal ability to twist, which markedly reduces its contraction power, causing fatigue and breathlessness. ...Conventional treatments that only remedy diseased narrowed arteries or leaky valves do not restore... function correctly. ...Normality can only be returned by restoring the... shape... Paco’s helical heart... became my guide, leading to a new procedure called ""Pacopexy""... functional improvement... not... possible without... ventricular restoration to rebuild normality.
- Gerald Buckberg

f you look at the diseases we see... a narrowing in the coronary artery... a valve becomes leaky, either the or the, or people who have muscular disease. The heart changes from an ellipse to a sphere. In a sense... from a football to a basketball. ...here's alteration in the fiber direction of the ventricle.
- Gerald Buckberg

To unfold the heart, we must separate the aorta from the pulmonary artery... to expose the free wall of the right ventricle. ...e must unfold the helix of the heart ...unroofing ...the from its ventricular attachment to separate the ascending and descending limbs... by unwrapping the coil. ... longitudinal myocardial band is demonstrated that corresponds directly to an open stretched rope. ...Dr Torrent-Guasp has performed this unfolding or unscrolling while dissecting an intact heart... to define the intact myocardium as a single muscle band that extends between the aorta at its termination to the at its beginning. ...A fascinating study was done by Dr P. P. Lunkenheimer... which can counteract concerns that this... may not be repro-ducible...
- Gerald Buckberg

I have a way of looking at things, because I discover failure and find solutions. ...I'm grateful that I've been able to implement medical care that's given, but realize there are major limitations, major failures... I have spent... fifty years finding solutions to many of those different problems.
- Gerald Buckberg