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cular ultrasound, all performed
on male patients (from 39 to 63
years old).
The stent technique is only
three years old and is now rou-
tinely performed at Sham Zedek
in Jerusalem, where there were
110 such procedures in 1994.
Stenting reduces the risk of re-
currence of the narrowing of the
artery. The procedure usually
takes from 30 minutes to two
hours, depending on the corn-
plodty of the case. The patient is
then hospitalized for a maximum
of two days. In most cases, stent-
ing prevents the necessity of a
coronary bypass. The stent sup-
ports the artery wall and pre-
vents it from collapsing.
The procedure involves thread-
ing from the groin to the coronary
arteries, guided by a tiny ultra-
sound device, and insertion of
mesh cylinders to hold open per-
manently a patient's narrowed
or clogged blood vessels.
Tiny balloons are inflated
which expand the metal cylinders
and place them accurately in the
intersection of vessels. In one
catheterization done during the
demonstration, for the first time
three stents were implanted in a
39-year-old patient whose coro-
nary artery had been danger-
ously narrowed due to heavy
smoking. During the stenting,
cardiologists in Washington,
D.C., were in full contact with Dr.
Almagor and could ask him ques-
tions and receive answers as the
catheterization proceeded.

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From Russia
With Love

During the last days of 1994, the
news media in Israel gave ex-
tensive coverage to the dramat-
ic immigration of members of the
small Jewish community of
Chechnya who escaped to Israel
from war-torn Grozny. This
brought the number of Jewish
immigrants who arrived in Israel
last year from the former Soviet
Union to more than 66,000.
Since 1992, there has been a
steady yearly influx of 65,000-
67,000 immigrants to Israel from
the former Soviet Union. It is a
number almost taken for grant-
ed by government and Jewish
Agency officials, as well as by lay
and professional Jewish com-
munity leaders abroad.
Certainly, little thought is giv-
en to the role of those entrusted
with making all this happen —
the network of 90 Jewish Agency
emissaries (shlichim) in the for-
mer Soviet Union.
Chaim Chessler, 45, who for-
merly headed the United States
Aliyah Office and in the 1970s
and was secretary general for Is-
rael's Public Council for Soviet
Jewry, arrived in Russia in 1993
with his wife and three children,