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...surgeons a "dry field" and a heart at rest. With deft scalpel, Surgeon Effler slit open the flaccid right ventricle, drew the remaining blood from it, and located the opening in the septum. He sutured the sides of the hole together. Then he took the clamp off the aorta and let blood from the artificial heart flow back into nature's heart. The potassium citrate soon washed out and-with no artificial prodding-the heart resumed its normal rhythm even before Effler could finish closing the ventricle wall. Last week, nine weeks after the operation, the youngster was home...
...distinction. A minister of the Methodist church, Paul Hutchinson brought the lively and articulate intellect of an exceptionally able journalist to his selected task: "Communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age." He was still vigorously communicating when he died last Sunday in Beaumont, Texas of a ruptured aorta...
Died. Paul Hutchinson, 65, Methodist minister, editor (1947-55) of the Protestant weekly, Christian Century, author (Storm Over Asia, The New Leviathan); of a ruptured aorta; in Beaumont, Texas (see RELIGION...
...some cases of nervous origin there is a formidable two-stage operation, sympathectomy: whole series of nerve bundles beside the spine are cut. Increasingly daring surgery is also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit the artery lengthwise, scrape off the diseased deposits, and sew it up again...
LIKE all the other muscles of the human body, the heart muscle itself requires freshly oxygenated blood to live. It gets its supply from the coronary arteries, which sprout from the trunk of the arterial tree, the aorta, and divide into hundreds of smaller branches to feed back into the heart muscle some of the arterial blood that the heart has just previously pumped...