Word: aortic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Racked by angina at age two, she can now climb a flight of stairs without stopping. What is even more impressive to scientists is that X-ray studies show that her disease has actually regressed. "Atherosclerosis of her renal artery has completely disappeared," exults Yamamoto, and blockage around the aortic valve "is almost gone...
...pass through Red Square to review the massed battalions on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November, but he never appeared. According to the official medical bulletin last week, Ustinov had contracted pneumonia in October. Emergency surgery had to be performed to correct an aneurysm in the aortic valve. His liver and kidneys later malfunctioned, and he suffered a cardiac arrest last Thursday evening...
Back in the operating room, Bailey removed Fae's defective heart and replaced it with the heart from the baboon. Because baboons have only two major arteries leaving the aortic arch, as opposed to the three in humans (see diagram), two of the baby's vessels were first joined together before being connected to one of the two arterial openings in the baboon's aorta. When the delicate plumbing job was completed, doctors slowly raised the infant's temperature and weaned her from the heart-lung machine. At 11:35 a.m. on Oct. 26, four hours and five minutes after...