Word: debakey
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When the first entirely artificial heart is developed, it will probably be made of Silastic. This is the material that Houston's Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey used for the closest approximation to such an organ ever tried in a human patient. It was a substitute for the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, and it worked for 3½ days, until the patient died of other causes (TIME...
...Heart for You flowed over the operating room in Houston's Methodist Hospital. But the patient on the table, His Royal Highness Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, was already going under the anesthetic. Baylor University's famed surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey was scarcely listening as he performed an operation that only a few years ago would have seemed dangerous indeed. He slit open the 70-year-old duke's belly and cut down to the aorta, the body's main artery, on which he found a 4-in. section...
...DeBakey, who developed the operation and has already done it 6,500 times, the procedure was routine. But alter he made a 6-in. incision through the duke's lean abdominal wall, the surgeon discovered that the aneurysm was even bigger than expected. 'The size of a small cantaloupe or large grapefruit," he reported. Instead of a simple balloon shape with a neat "stalk," it was "fusiform," with its base extending along the aorta. Worse, the wall of the aorta had eroded until it was on the point of rupturing...
...other public-spirited citizens whom the President thus exhorted when he named them to a special commission reported back to him last week that the U.S. can indeed do something about its greatest killers-but at a price. Under the chairmanship of Houston's famed Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, the commission unanimously concluded that much needs to be done in several categories...
...Surgeon Michael Ellis DeBakey, 55, of Houston, a bold pioneer in attacking mechanical defects of blood vessels. DeBakey's work ranges from the aorta to the arteries that supply the brain; he has learned to repair them with ingenious grafts or get around the trouble with shunts...