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This can usually be found on Twitter.
... that in 2006, at the age of 97, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey suffered from aortic dissection, and became the oldest person to be treated for this condition, which is essentially a tear in the inner lining of the aorta, causing blood to leak into the tunica media? Which is especially cool because he developed the technique used on him?
How cool is that. And he's still alive (as of mid-March, 2007), and will turn a hundred this September. Crazy, crazy world.
Labels: aorta, Did you know, doctors, heart, medicine
This post was posted by Unknown at 12:18 am
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