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Houston Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and the team of American specialists who joined Kean in Cairo brought with them a set of ultramodern machines to "nourish" the Shah's enfeebled blood. After hurried consultations with Egyptian doctors, the American team decided to operate on Friday night when the Shah's fever fell and his blood count improved. At a Saturday press conference following the one-hour operation, doctors pronounced the Shah's condition "very satisfactory." But further tests were planned to determine how far his cancer had spread beyond the spleen...
...international team of physicians had decided that surgery was essential. Flown to Panama City from his home in exile on nearby Contadora Island, the Shah checked into the Paitilla Medical Center, a modern private hospital. At the same time, the Shah's aides summoned Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey from Houston to perform the operation, which could involve serious cardiovascular complications. When DeBakey arrived in Panama City with five assistants, he was barred from operating. Panamanian doctors at the Paitilla Center explained that their medical and national sensibilities had been deeply offended. They would not serve as "medical gofers...
...week, a doctor at the clinic said that because the Shah was suffering from a cold the operation had been postponed. In Washington, meanwhile, President Carter issued a careful understatement: "We have a great deal of interest in the Shah's having available to him adequate medical care." DeBakey denied there had been any controversy with the Panamanian doctors...
...surgeon chosen to operate on the Shah's spleen was one of the world's most celebrated heart specialists, Michael DeBakey, president of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. DeBakey was selected because the surgery, which is normally not a difficult or life-threatening operation, might lead to cardiovascular complications. At week's end DeBakey flew to Panama with a team of five assistants; Panamanian medical authorities said that the visiting specialist could examine his royal patient, but were holding up permission for DeBakey to perform the surgery...
...crisis began on Jan. 3, when Tito was rushed to the Ljubljana clinic, where he stayed two days for tests and diagnosis. Then he returned to his nearby residence at Brdo, a popular skiing area in northern Yugoslavia. Two famous cardiovascular surgeons were flown in for consultation: Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston's Texas Medical Center and Dr. Marat Knyazev, a Soviet specialist. The unsuccessful operation, however, was performed by a team of eight Yugoslavs...