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...Presbyterian Hospital for a thorough check. The doctors found high blood pressure above her heart, low blood pressure below it. This, with a murmur heard over Lorraine's heart and other signs of abnormal circulation, indicated that she had suffered since birth from a coarctation (narrowing) of the aorta. The operation to correct this condition is drastic and dangerous; furthermore, there was no record of its having been done on a woman three months pregnant. But the doctors felt that the risk had to be taken...
...bottleneck section of the aorta was cut out and the ends were spliced together. Lorraine spent 33 days in the hospital. Last week, after another stay in the hospital, she went home with a healthy, 8-lb. daughter. Lorraine's heart is in fine shape. And her feet are warm. "No one who hasn't had cold feet all his life knows how wonderful it is," she said...
...ball on a steel suture just below the flaps of the valve. The plastic ball can move just enough to allow blood to drain downward into the ventricle. It moves up to act as a stopper in the mitral valve when the heart contracts to pump blood into the aorta...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...left the presence of Mr. Truman. In the absence of your correspondents on other business, there was none in that gathering to reply, 'Ah, Mr. Secretary, but how about the muscle of national defense which your superior, . . . Johnson, has cut away with the fat, in sparing the aorta and the gonads...