Word: thins
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...felt "like there was an elephant sitting on my chest." Realizing he was having a heart attack, he called for help and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Emergency room physicians stabilized his condition and transferred him to a special laboratory for a delicate experimental procedure. A long, thin plastic tube was inserted into an artery in his leg and gently pushed through the blood vessels all the way up into the aorta to the coronary arteries. A radiopaque substance was injected into the coronary vessels, and X-ray pictures were taken, revealing a blood clot. Doctors infused...
...taking a patient's history, doing a physical examination and ordering chest X rays, electrocardiograms and angiograms. X-ray films and EKGs give general information about the heart's structure and electrical activity, respectively. Angiograms, special X-ray pictures made by injecting a radiopaque substance through a thin tube inserted into the heart or coronary arteries, provide more accurate information about constrictions in the coronary arteries. But the technique is costly (about $2,000) and usually requires a two-night stay in the hospital. It carries a slight risk: one of every 1,000 patients dies from...
...leads from each ventricle through openings made in the patient's abdomen to a breadbox-size console that controls the rate and pressure of air pulsed to the heart. The console in turn is connected to an air compressor. As air flows into each ventricle, it pushes a thin membrane upward, expelling blood that has entered through the atria out through the pulmonary artery and the aorta...
...approach carefully. At first, I think maybe he died in the night, but his eyes are live, they follow me, keeping me in focus. I come to the edge of his bed. His mouth opens twice, dry pale lips, paper-frail. But he gets out a sound, a thin, high voice almost falsetto...
...President Reese Schonfeld, 49: "When we started up and I saw that it could work, there were tears in my eyes." If Schonfeld could have predicted his balance sheet, those might have been tears of sorrow. Starting with a scant potential audience of 1.7 million and a paper-thin $25 million annual budget,* CNN soon faced operating costs close to $3 million per month during the heat of an election summer. News Director George Watson, the former head of ABC's Washington bureau, quit in frustration after two months of broadcasting; others followed. Most threatening of all, RCA (parent...