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American to Advise on Yeltsin’s Surgery

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From Times Wire Reports

American heart surgeon Michael DeBakey and other foreign specialists will be asked to advise the Russian team that will perform coronary bypass surgery on Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin. The announcement, by the Kremlin’s chief physician, Sergei Mironov, included the first confirmation of the type of surgery Yeltsin will undergo: a coronary artery bypass. Other key questions about the president’s operation--when and where it will take place, and which doctors will operate--remained unanswered.

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