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When Betty Vanella was born in 1930, nature seemed to have gone out of its way to do everything wrong in building her heart. The two "great vessels" were hooked up in reverse: the aorta, which is supposed to send oxygenated blood from the left lower chamber out to the body, emerged instead from the right lower chamber; the pulmonary artery, which is supposed to send used venous blood from the right lower chamber to the lungs for oxygenation, was connected where the aorta should have been. To make matters worse, the outflow of blood from the heart through...
...devoutly prolabor New Englander who for three decades reported the birth pangs of U.S. unions in countless articles and five books (Labor's New Millions), often abandoning tier sidelines role to bail out imprisoned labor leaders and aid strikers' families; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Provincetown, Mass...
...left ventricle contracted, it propelled most of its blood, against negligible resistance, into the pump's Silastic chamber. The electrical impulse signaling this event then triggered the pump, and a gush of oxygen into the outer Fiberglas chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk of blood damage or other complications, Dr. Kantrowitz and the hovering cardiologists did not leave the pump running continuously...
...turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into his face. The car spun wildly, slid 450 ft. backward into the wall so violently that the starting shaft penetrated 5 in. into the concrete. Rodee died of a ruptured aorta-the 30th driver fatality at Indy...
...half-heart pump is next used, which may be within a couple of weeks, DeBakey's mechanical-minded research assistant, Surgeon William Aker, will have made some minor modifications. In DeRudder's case, the two main inflow and outflow tubes, stitched into his left auricle and aorta, were led to a plastic frame, 1½ in. thick, implanted in the chest wall. The hemispherical pump was attached externally to this. The connecting tips of the frame for the pump will be modified to make the surgery simpler and therefore quicker...