(Holzmann, Manktelow) Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital.
(Taut) Resident in Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
(Bloch) Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
(Zapol) Reginald Jenney Professor of Anaesthesia, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Received from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Submitted for publication June 15, 1998. Accepted for publication March 1, 1999. Supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Bonn, Germany) Grant HO1651/2 (AH) and USPHS grants HL-42397 (WMZ) and HL-55377 (KDB) from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. KDB is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas. Presented in part at the Experimental Biology Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 6–9, 1997, and at the Deutscher Anasthesiekongreb meeting, Hamburg, Germany, April 23–26, 1997. The Massachusetts General Hospital has obtained patents on the use of inhaled nitric oxide. The authors have rights to receive royalties.
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