Word: mceachen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McEachen favored what he called "direct operations," in which the surgeon reams out the plugged artery. This procedure, technically "endarterectomy," was first' attempted by Dr. Charles...
Bailey (TIME cover, March 25, 1957); now, says McEachen, the reaming-out (see diagram), which he does in the di rection opposite to that of the blood flow to reduce the risk of clotting, may have to be combined with the graft of a patch into the side of the diseased artery to restore its full bore. Under any circumstances, he said, the heart-lung machine is needed during the operation, and the surgeon has to use "microsurgical instruments, magnifying lenses, tiny sutures and great care." Of six Santa Monica patients followed for up to three years, five have derived...
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