Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...raying Enrique and subjecting him to a battery of tissue and blood tests in order to determine the deformity's extent. X-ray examinations showed that the incomplete twin consisted of a second pelvis fused to the front of Enrique's own pelvis, plus a partial extra bladder. The pictures also disclosed that the growth was not connected to Enrique's spine or nervous system; indeed, Enrique had never been known to move or show feeling in the appendage, though it made up one-quarter of his weight. But doctors still had no way of knowing until...
Silver Clips. Donovan's team cut around the appendage, taking out the arteries that supplied blood to the incomplete twin. After that, they found to their relief that the removal would not impair the patient's circulation. They next separated and took out the duplicate bladder. Then, after marking the limits of Enrique's own pelvis with silver clips, they cut away the extra pelvis and hip joints and removed the growth. The procedure left ample skin flaps for suturing...
...prayerful South Carolina child of six. In 1961, he came to Harvard as a freshman and remained three years with mediocre grades. He spent his hours drinking cases of beer in front of the Adams House TV and pissing in the sink of a nearby art room when his bladder beckoned. One night, he fondly recalls, the janitor locked the art room and Sloan was forced to deposit his urine in the House's ashtrays...
...Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...