Word: sommerfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Somehow, Sommerfield survived ten weeks with his badly damaged (and somewhat enlarged) heart, then went under the knives of a Baylor College of Medicine team of surgeons headed by Michael E. DeBakey and Denton A. Cooley (TIME, June...
...similar and equally daring operation on an adult with an injured heart. The Houston doctors decided that they did not need to stop the beat of an adult's heart already damaged by a blockage in the arteries feeding its muscle (coronary thrombosis or myocardial infarction). Bertram Sommerfield, 49, a Houston businessman, had a heart attack three months ago. One of its incidental effects was to tear a gaping hole in the septum between the ventricles. In adults, this usually is quickly fatal...