Word: atresia
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...team was just beginning. In wintry Brooklyn, Dr. Kantrowitz had put his team on full alert at about the same time as Dr. Barnard was alerting his. His 19-day-old patient, the intended heart-transplant recipient, had been born blue. The child was a victim of severe tricuspid atresia-constriction, to the point of almost total closure, of the three-leafed valve that normally regulates the flow of blood from the right auricle to the right ventricle on its way to the lungs for oxygenation. There is no way to correct this condition surgically, and its victims live...
...three other girls had no cancer, but biliary atresia-a congenital absence of bile ducts. This behaves for all practical purposes like a malignancy, and usually proves fatal within 18 months. Since construction of a normal route for the bile was impossible in these cases, the Starzl team did transplants for Paula Kay Hansen, aged 2, of Fort Worth; Kerri Lynn Brown, 16 months, of Long Beach, Calif.; and Carol Lynne Macourt, 16 months, of Salt Lake City...