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...Vineberg told the cardiologists, he has combined this technique with an even more extensive operation for heart-disease victims who have blocks in two or three coronaries. In addition to implanting the mammary artery, Dr. Vineberg now opens the heart sac and removes all of its inner layer (the epicardium). Then he wraps the heart in what amounts to a blanket of tissue that is rich in blood vessels. To get this material, he cuts through the diaphragm and takes out a 6-inch by 10-inch piece of the omentum, the apron of fat that lies over the intestines...
...three years, said Dr. Vineberg, he has done this combined operation on 87 patients with disease in all three major coronary branches, including 21 who had been confined to bed or chair. Among the 66 who were up and about, there have been only three deaths connected with surgery, and at least 40 previously disabled patients are now back at work...
...bowling's new recruits are men, the biggest factor in bowling's boom is women. The successful appeal to the ladies has meant that bowling alleys can keep making money in daylight hours. Women quickly learn that bowling can be fun straight from the start. Says Harold Vineberg, who runs five establishments in Florida: "I've seen a woman who had never tried any sport get a strike the first time she ever bowled. That's pure luck. But, for that one ball, she is playing as well as the best bowler in the world...
...such case seemed to be Horace Watkins, 52, an Ontario electrical inspector. When he entered Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, he could walk only six steps before pain and exhaustion stopped him. But Dr. Arthur Vineberg had been operating on animals, testing his own refinements of a basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap...