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Page 4B>The Battalion/Friday, September 2,1983 21 BUCKS BUYS A LSI UF BURGERS,BEER, Yes! Your dorm costs may include local calls from your phone — but if you want to make long distance calls, it’ll cost you an extra $21 for hook-up! Gee...no, GTE. That’s what they charge. STAR TEL can get you long distance for less lowest rates — without a hook-up charge! up to 50% less than GTE’s Start STAR TEL today start saving tonight! CALL 779-2830 NOW 1313 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, Texas Parade of umbrellas staff photo by Eric Era When the rain began Thursday morning, many were caught in the downpour without the protection of their umbrellas while walking by the Memorial Student Center. Si Sick wish Heart surgery has come far United Press International NEW YORK — At the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, the first open-heart operation with the use of a heart-lung machine was performed April 5, 1956. Between then and now, surgeons there did 50,000 of the operations, advancing quickly over the 27 years. Their crossing of the awesome frontiers is re called in a report by surgeon-in chief, Dr. Denton A. Cooley. Reporting in the Texas Heart Institute Journal, Cooley’s chro nicle notes that the first patient died six weeks after attempts were made to fix his heart while it was shut down, the usual f unc tions taken over by a cumber some heart-lung machine. On February 16, 1983, 27 years after that first operation, Cooley said, a 46-year old man underwent a double by-pass, spent seven days in the hospital, was dismissed and has had a smooth convalescence. “The contrast between the two patients is striking,” Cooley said. “The first operation was per formed on a patient with a fatal complication of a severe myocardial infarction (heart attack). The second was done more as a preventive measure against myocardial infarction to provide relief of angina pectoris and restore a symptom-free life.” Tracing the evolution of open heart surgery, Cooley breaks it into several periods, as follows: — Early Period. 1956 to IH Typified by use of relam cumbersome, reusable ei ment which required t« reassembly between cases, maximum caseload was 251 year and most were congei cardiac abnormalities. — Middle Period. 1 1969. More efficient and pi tical equipment was develop Plastic, disposable devices tot gif I'nited Press Intern; PROVIDENCE, R. en who spend time have an overridii well. 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Of major importancedi ing this period was introduci of artificial heart valves to place diseased ones. — Late Period. 1970 to 19 The introduction of technf to bypass a diseased segmeni coronary artery. The first a procedure at the Institute* )mher band l , done m 1965. Cooley said sspentnear , h 8 aIfh technique now accounts » .J.j ' more than 60 percent of I open-heart procedures done! the. Also during this period,* gical repair for more compk congenital problems I available. — Current Period. 1 Melissa, a single he aid down her back, p other active 5-ye cept for the tube pe Melissa, her two si ir parents went t odd earlier this year beealf A Wish Come True tlissa wanted to se ouse.Theorganizath 1983. The volume of openhfli i(heSl,800 tab. Mrs, Baker, 37, of iri is three healthy t procedures has reached plateau at the Institute, due to the use of a technif trself, She said she h known as percutaneous tra® en involved in fur luminal coronary angioplaslpi With this procedure, atiii ha helping chronica tube with a papermatch-sizebi tn.and decided will loon on the end is snaked intofnd to start a similar clogging artery. Then bursts of gas inflate the I liltl lode Island. Since then, she’s he, GO TEX/kS STUDENT ERNMENT UNIVERSITY SENATE ORIENTATION Sunday, September 4 1-4 p.m. 204 Harrington ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED FRES S.G. Bar-B-Que Afterward to push back the blocking fat) veral other states, material, widening the openitij Cooley said the final asses ‘ganizations. The Bakers’ group ment of results from angio) ty, now used as an alternativefo 'helpingchildren in some types of heart operation! nd and nearby Mass will be forthcoming within ll< next few years. Salmon sperm spawns new cancer drug “Right now we’re re; «d diming it, but pei ten wonderful," she The Tiverton Tow onated their salaries United Press International What’s the latest lead in th search for a new cancer druf Salmon sperm. A protein in the sperm calk protamine has been used check the growth of tumors > mice by starving and suffocatin them. In the early stages of cantf explains Judah Folkman oftl Harvard Medical School, nt blood vessels sprout from el isting ones and grow toward tumor to give it oxygen and rients. Protamine somehow sti these vessels from growing, problem? Protamine is toxicl healthy cells. “But because it is the pure compound known to this type of vessel growth,” Fol man said, “studying how works may help us find nv therapeutically approprl drugs.” lassachusetts, that h Id WE CC ALL r AMEF all 10% Discc