Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acute tubular necrosis, which generally started within four days of surgery and lasted up to two weeks. For reasons that remain obscure, all four experienced impairment of their immune systems in the weeks following surgery, and all suffered from some form of infection, ranging from urinary-tract problems to pneumonia. Experience with the four patients has also shown that the artificial heart batters the red blood cells, causing a form of anemia. As a result, said DeVries, "if you have an artificial heart, you can expect to have blood transfusions once or twice a month...
DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...
Ormandy's death last week of pneumonia at 85 closed an important chapter of American orchestral history. Before jet travel, conductors routinely spent years in one city, patiently establishing performance traditions; by contrast, a modern music director may lead two or three orchestras at once, allocating only a few weeks a year to each. "This new crop of conductors is marvelously talented, and so eager to make a success in two minutes," Ormandy once said. "There is a very famous one who wants one leg in Berlin, one in London, one hand in Florence, the other in Paris...
...felt chest pains and was rushed to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where doctors found him well enough to return to jail. Ralph Scopo, 56, a reputed soldier in the Colombo family and regional president of a concrete workers' union, got better treatment. A doctor confirmed his complaint that he had pneumonia and kept...
...University of Michigan. Worst hit of all was Principia College of Elsah, Ill., a tiny Christian Science-affiliated school where at least 96 students have been infected and two have died, apparently from complications. (Rubeola, which tends to be more serious in adults than in children, can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis...