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There is a breakthrough publication in the last Science about successful Teleportation(!) of quantum particles between Australia and Japan.
This is general science and not surgery; I know that but it might have caught me in an optimistic moment because I just started imagining what would be, should we be able to teleport real objects one day.
I am so impressed that I didn’t want to let this news just pass by without having noted it. :)
While looking for papers about “small-for-size” liver syndrome, I just stumbled upon a relatively new test called FibroScan®. This is an interesting approach in determine the stiffness of the tissue as this reflects a possible fibrosis/cirrhosis of the liver.
The test is performed by Ultra Sound (US) or MRI (the term “FibroScan®” is the commercial name of the US way only). Both methods rely on measuring the response of the liver tissue to an external vibration. Continue Reading »
Everyone who sporadically was or regularly is stopping by, I would like to wish Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate these days.
Here is my holiday’s gift for you: a very nice surgical story I recently heard. Continue Reading »
Michael DeBakey died at the age of 99.
This surgeon published his first invention in 1933 and had an office at the Baylor College in Houston until his death yesterday (In Memoriam, Baylor College of Medicine).
My former chief retired about a year ago and at the same day I left also the Medical Center where he and Dr. Thorsten Morlang made me a surgeon. At a ceremony because of his retirement Dr. Wolf J. Stelter (1994 president of the Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society) showed then pictures of his own chiefs through the years in different medical centers in Germany and in the United States. He started talking about them saying that of all these men, only Michael DeBakey is still alive. …And I was happy that my chief is alive.
Until some hours ago Michael DeBakey was a living legend… I can’t write anything more about this.
Rest in peace, Dr. DeBakey! Rest in peace, Michael!