Word: aortas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their increasing ability to control high blood pressure, doctors are still not sure what causes it. Some cases of hypertension stem from kidney disease. Others can be traced to a condition called coarctation or pinching of the aorta, the main artery leading from the heart. A handful of cases have been attributed to pheochromocytomas and other tumors on the adrenal glands that cause overproduction of certain hormones involved in blood-pressure control. But all these conditions together probably do not account for more than 5% of hypertension victims. Most cases are described by doctors as "essential" -medical jargon meaning...
...heart muscle, partly to make room for the implant. He placed the donor heart piggyback on Taylor's own, left side to left side, and cut silver-dollar-size holes in the left atrium (upper chamber) of each. Then he stitched the two hearts together and shunted the aorta from the donor heart into Taylor's aorta...
Died. Charles Evans Whittaker, 72, a former Supreme Court Justice; of a ruptured aorta; in Kansas City, Mo. A high school dropout who returned to school to study law, Whittaker rose to prominence as a Missouri trial lawyer and was appointed to the high court by Eisenhower in 1957. A judicial conservative, Whittaker consistently held claims of individual liberty to be outweighed by the needs of government, cast the deciding vote in 40 cases that ruled against an extension of civil rights and upheld actions against the Communist Party and alleged members. He resigned from the court...
...Viet Nam veteran who serves as director of emergency services at St. Mary's Long Beach Hospital in California. "I may open a patient's chest to massage his heart, but it's the cardiac surgeon who is going to put in the plastic aorta. Our job is to keep the patient alive...
...proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit in Memphis, boldly decided to use a longer piece of vein, also from Hernandez's leg. He ran it from healthy tissue in the aorta directly to an unclogged portion of a major coronary artery-thus bypassing the blockage completely...