Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both DeBakey and Kantrowitz have obtained good results with half-hearts in one or two cases. DeBakey's best patient, Mrs. Esperanza del Valle Vásquez, was on heart assist for ten days after the implantation of two artificial valves in her heart. Now she puts in an eight-hour day on her feet, running her Mexico City beauty parlor. On hearing about Washkansky last week, she burbled...
...Callahan does not claim that his donation approach is new, and medical folklore is full of tales about wealthy benefactors who have been tapped this way. Most stories turn out, on investigation, to be false, though Houston's famed heart surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey gets many donations this...
...DeBakey, for his contribution to heart surgery...
...Houston, a Mexican beautician named Mrs. Esperanza del Valle Vasquez, 37, was helped to survive ten crucial postoperative days by being hooked up to one of Dr. Michael DeBakey's plastic "half-hearts," developed at Baylor and Rice universities. Used mostly outside rather than partly inside the body-as in previous cases-the pump increased Mrs. Vasquez's heart output by as much as 40% while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump...
Today's top-responsibility middle-ager might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is watched by patient and public with rapt attention. Whether he is a Protestant evangelist (Billy Graham, 47) or a Catholic Archbishop (John Patrick Cody, 58, of Chicago, a U.S. cardinal-to-be), he lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president...