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Inventive, ingenious and daring surgery took 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...
...Mammary Implant. For the minority of patients with a relatively small and clearly defined blood block...
...carry blood to the heart muscle. Cleveland's Dr. Earle B. Kay reported that he and Dr. Akio Suzuki cut out a piece of the left lung's arterial network with "a multitude of side branches," and sew the "trunk" end into the descending aorta. Then they implant the smaller branches in the heart muscle. The advantage of this method, which has so far been successful in four out of six patients, said Dr. Kay, is that the blood vessels borrowed from the lung can be sewn into any part of the heart muscle...
...deft needle of Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
...basic idea of irradiating blood outside the body is not new, but for years it was impractical because patients needed surgery as often as once a day to implant and remove the forearm tubes. The current adaptation was made possible by Dr. Belding H. Scribner of Seattle (TIME, May 12, 1961), who devised a way of implanting the tubes permanently in the arms of patients needing regular treatments on the artificial kidney...