Word: vascularized
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There is no common name for what Dr. John F. Goodwin of the University of London and Hammersmith Hospital called "thromboembolic pulmonary vascular disorders." But these disorders, Dr. Goodwin told the Louisiana Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, are extremely common. In their most dramatic and catastrophic form, they are called pulmonary embolisms, and they may be almost as common as the single heart attack that proves quickly fatal. Their mechanism is similar-a blood clot traveling through the veins, usually from a leg, blocks one of the great arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs...
Bone surgeons joined the radius (larger of the two forearm bones) with a narrow metal plate held in place by two screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
Complaining about the pain in his legs, Key, 54, was referred to Dr. Michael DeBakey, a world-famed vascular surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital. During an extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
...Robert Frost, 88, patriarch poet of the U.S., in Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after surgery for a urinary tract obstruction complicated by a mild heart attack and a subsequent blood clot in his lung; Clifton Webb, 69, courtly film comedian, in a Houston hospital for vascular surgery; Mrs. William O. Douglas, 45, wife of the Supreme Court Justice, with lacerations of the forehead and left knee sustained in a car-truck collision in Georgetown not far from her home; Hugh Gaitslcell, 56, Britain's Labor Party leader, in a London hospital with pleurisy complicated by pericarditis...
...though, it was not the Yankees or Frick or financial problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...