Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it comes to treatment after the damage is done, the researchers were more tentative in their reports. Most positive was Houston's famed surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, who reported that in a random series of 150 stroke victims examined by arterial X rays, no fewer than 43% were adjudged capable of getting substantial relief from prompt surgery...
...DeBakey and his team actually performed operations on 69 victims. In some cases they reamed out carotid and other arteries leading to the brain, in others they bypassed a completely shut-down stretch of artery with a Dacron tube to carry blood from a lower stretch of healthy artery to a higher one. Among the 69 cases they found 13 for whom they could do nothing, and had five failures, but in 51 cases they reported success. In some instances this was as great as relief from a substantial degree of paralysis, or loss of speech, or partial blindness...
Somehow, Sommerfield survived ten weeks with his badly damaged (and somewhat enlarged) heart, then went under the knives of a Baylor College of Medicine team of surgeons headed by Michael E. DeBakey and Denton A. Cooley (TIME, June...