Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aorta just before it splits to form the two main iliac arteries. A familiar feature of insufficient blood supply to the legs, which causes pain in the calf muscles so acute that the victim can hardly walk, is its on-again, off-again nature. Ten days after DeBakey has bypassed the blocked artery with a length of tubing, the patient who previously could walk no farther than a city block without disabling pain can usually go a leisurely mile...
...most daring, and still somewhat controversial, of Dr. DeBakey's innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon...
Perhaps the most forbiddingly difficult of DeBakey's aneurysm cases involved a man of 38 with a dissecting aneurysm that began in the chest cavity above the diaphragm and had not only grown in width but had also extended downward through the diaphragm, making a wide split where there is normally a tight fit. Worse still, the splitting of the arterial walls extended into parts of four branch arteries-the two renals, supplying both kidneys; the mesenteric, supplying much of the intestines; and the celiac, supplying the stomach, liver and spleen. Using a graft with six connections, Dr. DeBakey...
Triple-Play Team. Surgeon DeBakey performs such intricate operations so; often that he seems to be supplied with inexhaustible energy. His 20-hour day begins before dawn, when he tackles the paper work in his den at home. His first chore at the hospital starts at 7 a.m., when he checks three adjoining operating rooms to make sure they have all been set up in accordance with orders worked out with his two chief assistants, surgeons Dr. H. Edward Garrett, 38, and Dr. Jimmy Frank Howell, 32. A typical day's schedule reads...
Surgery begins at 7:30, and in what the Houston virtuosos have come to regard as routine cases, operations may get under way in the three rooms at once, with Drs. DeBakey, Garrett and Howell each taking charge in one. If a case is expected to be of more than average difficulty, DeBakey will have Garrett or Howell as his chief assistant, facing him across the operating table...