Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Digestive Cripples. At the opposite end of the life scale, where a whole group of other surgical emergencies are concentrated, Baylor University's professor of surgery. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, has developed a series of operations...
Complaining about the pain in his legs, Key, 54, was referred to Dr. Michael DeBakey, a world-famed vascular surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital. During an extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
...operating room, Dr. DeBakey performed a surgical procedure that he pioneered and has improved over the past ten years. He installed a temporary plastic "shunt" so that blood supply to the brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
...recovered rapidly. Seven weeks after surgery, he was running up and down four flights of stairs, testing his legs on lengthy hikes. Dr. DeBakey's operation, which has the tongue-defying name of thrombo-endarterectomy, is performed in scores of U.S. hospitals. He estimates that its use has value in some 40% of stroke cases, either in preventing the first, as in Key's case, or the second...
...with the ophthalmodynamometer until the patient reports that he cannot see out of that eye. The instrument registers the pressure at which vision was cut off. This in turn indicates the pressure in the internal carotid artery and shows whether that vessel is dangerously narrowed. If it is, a DeBakey operation may prove to be the answer...