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.

Heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died Friday in Houston at 99. Here, he performs surgery in Saudi Arabia in 1978. Colleagues remembered him as looking constantly into new methods and devices. HOUSTON ...

Houston, Texas - World-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey has died at age 99. One of the few heart surgeons to gain international recognition outside of medicine, he passed away of ...

The father of modern heart surgery, Louisiana native Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, died last night in Houston. He was 99. The New York Times has a full obituary of the Lake Charles native and Tulane ...

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a Louisiana-born, Tulane-trained surgeon whose ceaseless research and demanding nature allowed him to transform a major branch of modern medicine, died Friday in Houston. He ...

Michael Ellis DeBakey internationally acclaimed as the father of modern cardiovascular surgery and considered by many to be the greatest surgeon, ever died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in ...

HOUSTON — When Dr. Michael E. DeBakey pushed forward with his groundbreaking research and maverick approach to medicine a half century ago, heart surgery was a medical marvel. Today, in part because ...