Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimately, heart transplants may become unnecessary. By the time the immunologists have learned to induce tissue tolerance, an artificial heart should be perfected. To his pleased surprise, says DeBakey, the excitement over transplants has not hindered but has stimulated interest in efforts by his and other laboratories to produce an artificial heart. It will, he predicts, come in stages. First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast. Second, a portable but still external model. Eventually, he hopes for an implantable device with an internal power supply that will enable the patient to resume normal activities. Even then...
...heart transplantation still an exploratory venture on surgery's frontier, or has it become an accepted mode of treatment? On that, the transplanters themselves are divided, Shumway and DeBakey holding that it is still only investigational, with Barnard and Cooley just as emphatically insisting that it is already much more...
...Shumway Jr. suggested, it would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...
Miniaturized Surgery. After a year in London working with Britain's noted heart surgeon Lord Brock, Cooley returned to his native Houston and was associated at Baylor University College of Medicine with Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28, 1965). The DeBakey-Cooley team at Methodist Hospital pioneered many innovations in heart surgery before Cooley moved next door to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, which is also affiliated with Baylor. There he has established an independent reputation as one of the greatest of heart surgeons and almost certainly the world's greatest in the incredibly difficult...
...began this week with a second full hour for NBC. Sandwiched in was a respects-paying call on President Johnson at the LBJ Ranch. For his CBS debut, Barnard was flanked by the two surgeons most prominently identified with artificial hearts and transplantation: Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. He also faced two expert interrogators: Newsman Martin Agronsky and Science Editor Earl Ubell. If anyone showed strain it was Dr. Kantrowitz - understandably, because his transplantation of a heart into a 19-day-old infant had failed after 61 hours. Dr. Barnard...