Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what can be done about narrowed arteries in the neck, where the surgeon can get at them. From 5% to 20% of strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch graft to widen the artery. But evaluation of stroke victims' recovery is so difficult that no fewer than...
...four ascending arteries (two carotid, two vertebral) that carry blood toward the brain from the aorta's arch, just above the heart, are subject to the same types of disease as other major arteries, and they should, insisted Houston's famed surgeon Michael DeBakey (TIME, June 22, 1959), be treated the same way. If the disease is true hardening of the middle layer of the artery walls, surgery can do nothing about it. If the disease is atherosclerosis (not hardening, but clogging with fatty material), affecting only a short stretch of the ascending carotid or vertebral arteries...