Pioneering heart surgeon Michael Debakey dies at 99

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.

Sat, 12 Jul, 2008 - 11:26

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 on Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, from “natural causes”, said Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital.