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Word: venous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Broken Heart | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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