*** FILE *** American heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey during interview in his office conference room at Methodist Hospital in this May 28, 1985 file photo taken in Houston, Texas. 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, died Friday night July 11, 2008 at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, officials announced. He was 99. (AP Photo, FILE)