Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SURGEONS dream of the day when they will be able to replace any worn-out or damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature...
...prepared. This animal was hooked up to a heart-lung machine which did its blood pumping and breathing as long as necessary. Then its heart and lung or lungs were cut out and discarded. Now the surgeons took the chilled organs from the refrigerator and implanted them. The aorta had to be sewn in place with the utmost care-a time-consuming process−but the great veins leading into the right heart could be hooked up with simple surgical couplings...
...justice (since 1948) of the New Jersey Supreme Court (who simplified and reformed the state court structure and procedures), onetime (1938) president of the American Bar Association, longtime (34 years) professor and dean'(1943-48) at New York University's Law School; of a rupture of the aorta; in Summit...
...relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
...Transposition of the pulmonary artery and aorta. This represents such a drastic reversal of nature's design that it still offers more challenge than hope to the surgeon. At Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Thomas Gus Baffes has done 38 operations (switching some of the major vessels from one side of the heart to the other) with 23 survivors...