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...exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great. In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back to New York harbor. It cut the cost of transporting a barrel of flour from Buffalo to New York...
Slipshod Tests. Then there are conditions of the heart and arteries about which patients need special advice: severe high blood pressure, hypersensitivity of the main artery in the neck, the aftereffects of a heart attack, narrowing of the aorta, or angina pectoris so severe that it may cause crippling pain. Some abnormalities of the senses may easily go undetected, especially in the slipshod license examinations given in most states. Notable among these are tunnel vision-the ability to see straight ahead, but not far enough to the right or left-and disorders of the labyrinth of the ear, which controls...
...months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed where the artery's walls had been weakened by disease, was so big (8 in. across) that it was pushing organs out of place and was wearing away part...
There was nothing to do but cut out the length of distorted aorta and replace it with an arterial graft-an operation which was unthinkable until a few years ago. Recently, however, with the setting up of artery banks, more and more daring surgical feats of this type have succeeded. In last week's A.M.A. Journal, the two Houston doctors reported on what they believe is the first successful operation on an aneurysm high in the chest...
Under ether, the sheriff's chest was opened, and the surgeons clamped off the aorta on both sides of the enlargement. As soon as they removed enough of the mass to give themselves working space, they cut the aorta at each side. Into the gap they stitched a 6-in. piece of aorta taken from another patient, a Negro who had died of injuries a few days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps...