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Dr. Norman Sax, of Los Angeles, got a 14-year-old patient, a Pekinese named Duke, with his lungs so awash that the least exertion set him to puffing and wheezing. The diagnosis was obvious: congestive heart failure. Dr. Sax injected a diuretic to help clear the fluid from Duke...
Hole in the Wall. The aorta is the heart's outlet, through which the left ventricle pumps freshly oxygenated blood to the entire body. A weak spot in the wall of Hickey's aorta had ruptured, blowing a hole in the adjoining wall of the right auricle, which...
The institute has trained heart specialists who have already moved out to 20 of Mexico's 30 states where there were none before. After graduate studies in Mexico City, others have gone back to practice in the U.S., Europe and every Latin American republic. Thirty doctors are now taking...
Doctors also criticized doctors in a panel on how best to treat the patient who has some degree of congestive heart failure. Brooklyn's William Dock argued that since many such patients are going to have to live with their disease for ten to 15 years, they should be...
Last month, at Georgetown University Medical Center, the young woman (now 30) became the first patient in medical history to be fitted successfully with an artificial aortic valve. (Boston surgeons have slipped a plastic ball into the mitral valve-TIME, March 10). Though she will still have to follow doctor...