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Many older people have an entirely different reaction. Long-term exposure to the enervating heat appears to lessen their production of adrenaline, a hormone that maintains blood pressure and helps regulate cardiac function. The older folk become fatigued, apathetic and depressed. They may also become faint, thus contributing to the increased number of automobile accidents...
...Movies. No one, however, did more to advance the cause of cardiac revascularization than Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr., a Cleveland cardiologist who in 1958 developed a method of mapping the cardiovascular system. Known by the jawbreaking name of cine coronary angiography, Sones' technique involved inserting a catheter, or thin piece of tubing, into an arm artery, guiding it up through the aorta and then squirting a radiopaque dye through it directly into the coronary arteries. The dye, which showed up clearly on motion picture X rays, made it possible for physicians to see with 90% accuracy exactly where...
...Effler's earliest patients have lived three years with their new plumbing. Most bypass patients are not only alive, but well. A Massachusetts lawyer who underwent an emergency bypass graft a year ago has resumed his law practice, and Jack Chronin of New York, who had his cardiac plumbing redone last October, has recovered even more remarkably. Determined to keep himself and his heart healthy, he has taken up jogging...
What followed, however, was altogether too much. Berger's friends were told to leave the country. His wife died in a hospital, after surgery, of bronchial pneumonia leading to cardiac collapse. She had been under guard for nine weeks, although no charges were brought against her, and Berger suspects that better medical attention might have saved her. Last week, after his own long incarceration without bail, Berger was acquitted of the charge of possession of the drug because there was no evidence that it belonged to him. He was also cleared of having allowed his villa "Casa Degli Angeli...
Jauron also managed to cause a wave of cardiac arrests in the fourth quarter against the Tigers when he limped off the field with a knee injury. With quarterback Joe Massey and five other starters in varying states of disrepair, all the Yale fans needed was to lose Jauron for The Game...