Word: spleens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outskirts of Cairo. As helicopters whirred overhead, 100 machine gun-toting soldiers cordoned off the seven-story concrete building, refusing to admit even the relatives of other patients. Inside, a team of 20 doctors labored to foster the ousted monarch's recovery from emergency surgery on his cancerous spleen. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak reports on the tense medical vigil...
...responsible for clotting, had diminished precipitously to 20,000 per cu. mm instead of a normal 250,000. Nurses hurriedly rounded up donors of the relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery...
...Friday night when the Shah's fever fell and his blood count improved. At a Saturday press conference following the one-hour operation, doctors pronounced the Shah's condition "very satisfactory." But further tests were planned to determine how far his cancer had spread beyond the spleen...
...Shah left Panama only two days after the arrival of White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler. Ostensibly, they had flown to Panama City to arbitrate a dispute between Panamanian and American surgeons over who should remove the Shah's spleen. Two weeks ago, his international team of physicians had decided that surgery was essential. Flown to Panama City from his home in exile on nearby Contadora Island, the Shah checked into the Paitilla Medical Center, a modern private hospital. At the same time, the Shah's aides summoned Heart Surgeon Michael...
...some of his Texas colleagues reportedly expressed the alarmist view to the State Department that the Paitilla Center lacked the equipment and support personnel needed for the spleen operation. Several of the doctors are said to have advised removal of the Shah to a large U.S. medical center, or at least to Gorgas Hospital, a well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were...