YELTSIN'S PROGNOSIS BOOSTS GOVERNMENT.Byline: Michael R. Gordon Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for The New York Times [1]. Together with Judith Miller, he wrote most of that paper's coverage of the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq in 2002. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Calming days of mounting concern that President Boris Yeltsin “Yeltsin” redirects here. For other uses, see Yeltsin (disambiguation). Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (IPA: [bʌˈrʲis nʲikoˈlajevɨtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] may be too sick to rule Russia, his doctors said Wednesday that the Russian leader would go ahead with a bypass operation and was expected to make a full recovery. The surprisingly optimistic prognosis, endorsed by the renowned American specialist Dr. Michael E. DeBakey Michael Ellis DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi)[1] (September 7, 1908) is a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher. His motto is "Strive for nothing less than excellence." Early life Dr. , gave a badly needed lift to the Yeltsin government, which had been shaken by assertions that he might be too sick to risk surgery. At a time when Yeltsin's rivals within the Kremlin have been positioning themselves as potential successors and when Communists and other opposition figures have demanded that he step down, the doctors said it was likely the 65-year-old leader could regain his health and complete his four-year term. Still, doctors said that for medical reasons the operation would be delayed for at least six weeks and that it would take months for Yeltsin to recuperate re·cu·per·ate v. To return to health or strength; recover. , which means that Russia will be without a fully functioning leader for a considerable time. The conclusion of Yeltsin's doctors was given extra credibility by the participation of DeBakey, who pioneered many of the advances in cardiovascular surgery cardiovascular surgery Heart surgery An operation for repairing structural defects of the cardiovascular system Examples CABG, repair of congenital heart defects, varicose veins, aortic aneurysms, ventricular remodeling, transmyocardial and who has been treated here with a reverence not accorded Russian doctors. Russian television, which has withheld most of the grimmer news about the president's condition, broadcast DeBakey's brighter prognosis Wednesday night with great fanfare. After reviewing Yeltsin's medical records, conferring with his physicians and meeting the Russian leader, the 88-year-old DeBakey described Yeltsin's condition in two separate telephone interviews and in a joint news conference with Russian doctors. The surgeon said that Yeltsin needed a triple or quadruple bypass, but that he was optimistic the operation would enable the president's heart to ``function reasonably normally.'' Yeltsin was alert and able to concentrate for hours at a time, DeBakey added, contradicting dire press reports that the president had suffered a stroke and was virtually incapacitated in·ca·pac·i·tate tr.v. in·ca·pac·i·tat·ed, in·ca·pac·i·tat·ing, in·ca·pac·i·tates 1. To deprive of strength or ability; disable. 2. To make legally ineligible; disqualify. . ``He was outgoing and joking about the fact that these doctors had made him feel like an animal in a cage,'' DeBakey said in an interview. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Russian President Boris Yeltsin and American heart s pecialist Michael E. DeBakey talk during their meeting in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital on Wednesday. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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