The Shah never got a surgery in Panama and the dialogue between Islamic Republic and the Panamanian and American authorities on giving the Shah back to Iran, failed, and after a while the Shah returned back to Egypt. The Shah was certain that the surgery had to take place now.
One of the Shah’s doctors from very long back in the time, the French doctor, Dr. George Flandern, was also in Egypt. On March 26th 1979, Dr. De Bakey and his team entered Cairo, but this time without Dr. Hester, who got fired by Dr. De Bakey.

On the evening of March 28th, the Shah went under the knife. The surgery took one hour and twenty minutes and HIM. the Shahbanoo and Mr. Ardeshir Zahedi was watching the whole surgery on a TV screen, while Dr. De Bakey was telling them what he did etc.

It was in this surgery that the first disaster took place. An important machine at the surgery, which took care of the Shah’s blood, got a major technical problem. Dr. De Bakey said that this was not an important issue. But the doctors all over the world do not completely agree with him. Why this machine, which was in its best form suddenly got out of order, is still a big question. And why Dr. De Bakey was so ignorant towards that, is even a bigger question.

In this surgery, the Shah’s spleen was removed. In an interview with the New York Times, on March 31st 1980, Dr. De Bakey said that the spleen had been ten times bigger. One can wonder why Dr. Benjamin Keane in the American medical journal, from August 8th 1981, said that the spleen was twenty times bigger.