Word: russek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chest of a heart-disease victim to implant a piece of one of the patient's own veins or arteries to carry blood around an obstruction in the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle. But is the bypass operation always necessary? Not according to Dr. Henry Russek, a professor of cardiology at New York Medical College. At a conference on cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston last week, Russek claimed that drugs and other forms of medical care are far better treatment than surgery for most cases of angina pectoris, the pains arising from the oxygen...