De Bakey
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De Ba·key
(də bā′kē), Michael Ellis Born 1908. American heart surgeon who implanted the first totally artificial heart in a human (1966).
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De Bakey first uses an artificial heart to take over the circulation of a patient's heart during surgery
De Bakey is slim, he doesn't eat much and lives mainly on fruit and vegetables, seafood and chicken, leaving red meat for rare occasions.
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