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...heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split-second electric shock ("Juice!" he demanded), Effler began the operation that would save his patient's life-inserting pieces of vein cut from the leg to bypass two blocked coronary arteries, the heart muscle's principal source of blood...
...performed four years ago next week, he removed a section of his patient's saphenous vein, attached one end to the blocked right coronary artery at a point below the obstruction, stitched the other to a spot on the aorta above the blockage. The procedure allowed blood to bypass the blockage and greatly improved the heart's blood supply...
Fast Operator. Since then, the operation has been refined and perfected. The Cleveland Clinic alone has done nearly 2,000 bypass grafts; institutions like Stanford University Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital have performed hundreds. Few surgeons are more adept at the operation than Effler, whose team does at least half a dozen...
...fast operator, Effler performs most bypass grafts in about three hours, half the time the procedure once took. "Let me tell you," he warns a group of residents, "that if I ever find any one of you taking six hours for an uncomplicated case, you'll be looking for another appointment the same afternoon." His sense of urgency is understandable. The longer the patient stays on the heart-lung machine, the greater the damage to his blood cells and the higher the risk of postoperative problems...
...Sorel treats her subjects blandly. "Lord Cardigan (of sweater fame) took as his third wife the beautiful Adeline de Horsey. They lived happily together until he died at the age of 71 of injuries he received when he fell from his horse." Too bad as well that the writers bypass the kind of speculation that occurs to the reader immediately. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch might just as easily have given us sacherism as masochism...