Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Babies born with transposition of the great vessels-the aorta where the pulmonary artery ought to be, and vice versa -now face a problem for which there is no true cure. Why not cut out the baby's heart, ask the Stanford men. turn it around and sew it back so that the two sides of the heart exchange jobs...
There are, in fact, only three malformations: instead of arising only from the left ventricle, the aorta has outlets from each ventricle; the pulmonary artery or valve is narrowed; there is a hole in the wall between the ventricles. What Fallot thought was a fourth malformation, enlargement of the right ventricle, is a result of these three. It subsides when they are corrected. Youngest of three noted brothers, sons of Minneapolis Dentist C. I. Lillehei (still active in practice at 70): Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei is 44; James, 38, specializes in lung physiology; Surgeon Richard...
...Gross led the way toward heart surgery with his pioneering patent-ductus operation (to shut off a vessel that is necessary during fetal life, but should close automatically soon after birth). He followed this with a more daring operation in 1946 to remove a narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born. Baltimore's Dr. Al fred Blalock opened the field for surgery directly on a malformed heart with the first blue-baby operation, which he devised in 1944 with Pediatrician Helen Taussig...
Last week Dr. Bernhard told the Society of University Surgeons meeting in Seattle that four blue children have had operations in the chamber. Two died of complications. But two who were suffering from one of the most surgically forbidding of all congenital defects, transposition of the great vessels (aorta and pulmonary artery), are doing well after palliative operations...
...Technically known as supravalvular aortic stenosis; not to be confused with coarctation of the aorta (a far commoner condition), which is a narrowing of the aorta just beyond its "big bend" in the upper chest, several inches from the heart...