Episode Detail: Affairs of the Heart - Scientific American Frontiers
A survey of advances in cardiology. Included: surgical procedures performed on a Texas toddler whose heart at birth looked “like it was put together in a kindergarten art class,” says his father; minimally invasive cardiac procedures---including procedures utilizing robots developed by the military (in one sequence, “M*A*S*H” alum Alan Alda, the series' host, sews up pig entrails by remote control); mechanical-heart technology; and the long-running Framingham (Mass.) Heart Study.
