Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99. DeBakey died Friday, 11th July, 2008 night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston from "natural causes". DeBakey counted world leaders among his patients and helped turn Baylor from a provincial school into one of the nation's great medical institutions. It was the start of a lifetime of innovation. The surgical procedures that DeBakey developed once were the wonders of the medical world. Today, they are commonplace procedures in most hospitals.
He also was a pioneer in the effort to develop artificial hearts and heart pumps to assist patients waiting for transplants, and helped create more than 70 surgical instruments. In early 2006, DeBakey underwent surgery for a damaged aorta — a procedure he had developed.
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