Word: braunsteiner
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...with David's pupils dilated and fixed-usually a sign of death-the diseased section of aorta was cut out. In its place, Surgeon Braunstein and assistants began stitching in a graft, donated by a man who had died two months earlier, which was then freeze-dried. At 8:55 the stitching was finished. Fourteen pints of blood had been used. There was still no sign of a heartbeat or of life in David's eyes. The clamps were removed. Then the seemingly unbelievable happened. Says Dr. Mahajan, who was still massaging David's heart...