[DOC] [TLE] Michael E. DeBakey - Boris Yeltsin - Heart Surgery - The New York ... [PAR] May 1, 2007 ... Dr. Michael E. DeBakey performed heart surgery on Boris Yeltsin that ... N. 
Yeltsin was running for re-election as Russia's first president in the post-Soviet 
era. ... For independent advice, Mr. Yeltsin reached out to an American doctor as 
... did not have the bypass, Dr. DeBakey said in an interview yesterday. [DOC] [TLE] U.s. Doctors Call Yeltsin Surgery Risky Business - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Sep 24, 1996 ... Bypass surgery has an overall death rate of 10 percent in Russia, ... on whether 
to perform the bypass on the 65-year-old Russian president is ... Dr. Michael 
DeBakey, 88, the pioneering Texas heart surgeon from Baylor University, is in 
Moscow to assess Yeltsin's risks and advise the Russian doctors. [DOC] [TLE] doctors operate on yeltsin, call heart bypass a success - Deseret News [PAR] Nov 5, 1996 ... Dr. Renat Akchurin, who performed the surgery, said Yeltsin would ... "The 
president now breathes like any patient using an artificial respirator," Ak-chur-in 
said. ... The Russian doctor said Yeltsin still faced a recovery period, but his heart 
... Akchurin said recently that his team performed 650 heart bypass... [DOC] [TLE] Articles about Russia Government Officials Health by Date - Page 4 ... [PAR] Dr. Michael DeBakey gave his assessment in Houston five weeks after 
examining the Russian ... Doctors Reportedly Advise Against Yeltsin Surgery ... A 
newly energized Boris N. Yeltsin shook off his lengthy illness to knock together 
the ... team that will perform coronary bypass surgery on Russian President Boris 
N. Yeltsin. [DOC] [TLE] The distinguished service award medal for the Society of Vascular ... [PAR] The Society of Vascular Surgery has acknowledged some of these ... By the time 
he graduated from high school as valedictorian, Dr DeBakey had read the ... with 
Dr Jean Kunlin, who described the first femoral-popliteal bypass graft in 1948. .... 
Recently, Russian surgeons consulted with him when their nation's president,... [DOC] [TLE] YELTSIN'S HEART IN STEADY HANDS - The Washington Post [PAR] Sep 13, 1996 ... "If we perform several hundred of these {bypass} operations a year, {some 
Western ... eminent American surgeon Michael DeBakey of Baylor College of 
Medicine in ... asked to assist in the operation or to give advice on Yeltsin's 
medical treatment. ... "But in Russia, only the president can afford such luxury. [DOC] [TLE] Dr Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) - BIBA Medical [PAR] Jan 27, 2009 ... This special surgeon was born on 17th September 1908 and died, aged 99, ... 
DeBakey had no concerns about that and thought that Dr Oschner .... No surprise 
that he looked after presidents of the US, Yeltsin in Russia, the Shah of Persia 
and others. ... 1964  Performed first aorto-coronary artery bypass. [DOC] [TLE] Michael DeBakey Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements ... [PAR] This biography of Michael DeBakey provides detailed information about his ... in 
him led him to invent many surgical devices later in his life as a medical doctor. ... 
he was among the first surgeons who performed coronary artery bypass surgery. 
... He advised Russian president Boris Yeltsin and US Presidents Lyndon B. [DOC] [TLE] Vol. 7, No. 3, Sep. 2008 - International Academy of Cardiovascular ... [PAR] Sep 20, 2008 ... cardiovascular surgery, and other innovative research. ... he performed the first 
successful ... bypass operations using heart pumps ... honours, and most recently
, President ... The portrait of Dr. Michael DeBakey contributed to the ... Sensitive 
advice, expressions of concern and sympathy were a large part of... [DOC] [TLE] The Man on the Table Was 97, but He Devised the Surgery - carma [PAR] Dec 25, 2006 ... 31, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, then 97, was alone at home in Houston in his ... Dr. 
DeBakey has changed the way heart surgery is performed. ... Yeltsin, then the 
president of Russia, to aid in his quintuple heart bypass operation. ... Houston 
restaurant recently. .... who advised us that he

Question: Michael DeBakey recently advised Russian doctors to perform bypass surgery on this president
Answer: Boris Yeltsin