Word: aortic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Floyd Buckley, 82, Broadway's oldest performing actor (he played the mustached pappy of Mountain Boy Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants), who started trouping in 1899 witn Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; of an aortic aneurism suffered after his 445th straight performance in Sergeants; in New York City...
...human heart, reported Dr. James H. Wible and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University College of Medicine. Called "Elgiloy," the metal is formed into a valvelike flap and covered with nylon. The surgeon fits it into the heart in place of a sub-par mitral or aortic valve. Within 48 hours normal tissue begins to grow around it, in about two weeks completely encloses it. The metal is expected to retain its springiness beyond the patient's life expectancy. ¶Because certain cancers take up phosphorus more readily than healthy tissues do, a University of Minnesota team headed...
...healed infarction on the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle was again noted and appeared as an area approximately 2.5 centimeters (nearly one inch) in extent in which the amplitude of the pulsations was diminished. There was no evidence of bulging in the scar. Action of the diaphragm and aortic pulsations were normal...
Last month, at Georgetown University Medical Center, the young woman (now 30) became the first patient in medical history to be fitted successfully with an artificial aortic valve. (Boston surgeons have slipped a plastic ball into the mitral valve-TIME, March 10). Though she will still have to follow doctor's orders (digitalis, salt rationing and plenty of rest), she is a changed woman-vigorous, gaining strength and hope, and free from the pain of angina...
...only patient now wearing an artificial aortic valve ticks like a watch to the stethoscopic ear. Like nature's valve, the plastic job will work equally well in any position. "Patients will be able to stand on their heads, if they like," says Dr. Hufnagel...