Word: aneurysm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke out. leaving 6,000 prisoners, half of them wounded. But the paratroopers' spirit was so strong that hundreds of men escaped from P.W. compounds after the battle. Among them was Surgeon Paul, who took through the barbed wire with him "the specimen of a traumatic aneurysm which I'd removed in [Arnhem] and . . . had a whim to present to ... the Royal College of Surgeons...
With driving intensity and singleness of purpose, Surgeon DeBakey worked all day every day and half the night (since 1948 at Houston's Baylor University hospitals) on mechanical defects of blood vessels, especially the aorta. This great vessel, the body's main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...
...hemorrhage, or a blowout in a weakened artery wall; 3) aneurysm, a ballooning of weakened artery wall, which causes pressure on surrounding brain tissues. For all three categories, the experts reported advances in research and diagnosis as well as treatment...
...aneurysm (ballooning blister) often develops on the muscular wall of the ventricle after a heart attack (estimated U.S. incidence: 25,000 to 200,000 cases a year). Famed Philadelphia Surgeon Charles P. Bailey believes that many such aneurysms can be greatly improved by surgery. By clamping off the blister sac, amputating it and stitching up the ventricle wall, his team got good results in seven out of eight cases-far better than the "dismal prospects with conservative management...