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Such a hard-luck story befell the Crimson last night, with junior defenseman Geb Marett pulling his groin and dressing up in street clothes after the first stanza...
...very complicated: doctors open the chest and replace the fragile portion of the artery with a graft from another one in the body. The new experimental device, basically a cylindrical patch that reinforces the weakened area, can be positioned in the aorta through a thin tube inserted into the groin area and guided up to the chest. If proven as effective as the surgery, the device, currently being tested on 150 patients in a four-year program, could be a major boon. "Any time you can avoid major surgery, you're better off," says TIME health reporter Janice Castro...
...Crimson's line-up was hurt by the absence of junior Todd Meringoff, who was sidelined by a lingering groin injury...
...third line should see senior Michel Breistroff, who will play tonight if his groin injury has healed, and junior Geb Marett. Marett is coming of an injury-filled year, while Breistroff returns to Harvard after a one-year absence in which he played on the French national team...
Meringoff, the two-time defending Rolex Eastern Men's Division I Champion, is still bothered by a groin injury that ended his spring season prematurely...