Word: debakey
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...another step last week toward the ultimate goal of replacing human hearts hopelessly damaged by disease. The operation at Houston's Methodist Hospital was not, as racing-pulse press reports first proclaimed, "history's first implant of an artificial heart," but it incorporated famed Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey's latest refinements of a device on which he and his colleagues at Baylor and Rice universities have worked for eight years. And it gave a doomed patient renewed hope of life...
Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, a former miner, long a victim of rheumatic heart disease, had been unable to do any work for 21 years. Dr. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28) and the cardiologists on his team soon found that DeRudder had a badly damaged and calcified mitral valve, through which blood passes from the left auricle to the left ventricle. This valve had worked so poorly for so long that the overtaxed left ventricle had become enlarged, flabby and inefficient. It was possible that Patient DeRudder could survive with nothing more than an artificial valve, but the surgeons could...
...doctors and engineers with the one device that might help: a "half-heart" to assist the left ventricle by partially bypassing it (see diagram). An instrument based on the same principle but of different design and materials had been first tried in man 2½ years ago, when Dr. DeBakey used it to keep a moribund patient alive for 3½ days (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), and for only the second time last February, when Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used a comparable device for 24 hours...
...Melville's criterion, suggests Dr. Lois DeBakey in the New England Journal of Medicine, medicine must be full of "smatterers in science." Hospital records, casual conversations and technical reports "are loaded with shoptalk, incomprehensible to nonphysicians and often confusing even to physicians from other regions." A member of a notable family of surgeons-one brother is Houston Surgeon Michael DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28), another brother, Ernest, is also a surgeon-Dr. Lois, who has a Ph.D. in English and is an associate professor in scientific communication at Tulane University, is a surgeon of language. She advises medical writers...
Agrypnia Insomnia Cephalalgia Headache Cholelithiasis Gallstones Deglutition Swallowing Emesis Vomiting Hemorrhage Bleeding Obese Fat Pyrexia Fever Respire Breathe Carrying her criticism right to the end (not "termination") of life, Dr. DeBakey thinks "in extremis is a pretentious expression for dying...