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...years since Johns Hopkins' famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock electrified the medical world by turning "blue babies" into pink and active youngsters, at least 10,000 such invalids since birth have had operations of this type. The number may be closer to 20,000; nobody knows for sure. Until now, nobody has known the fate of these children as they matured. Could they marry and have children themselves? If they did, what were their children's chances of being born with defective hearts...
...Discouraged." Last week Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, 64, who did the basic research on blue babies and suggested the operative approach to Surgeon Blalock, gave an encouraging report on the progress of the 1,700 patients who have had the blue-baby operation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins. Among these and other victims of congenital heart defects, at least 235 with whom Dr. Taussig has been able to keep in close touch have become parents: 76 men and 159 women. In 160 pregnancies where the father had the heart defect, six children were born malformed, three had heart defects...
...striking case is that of Adele Roveda, whose heart defect was diagnosed in infancy before any corrective surgery had been devised. At 17, she had an early Blalock-Taussig operation, and another nine years later. Now 31, and married to Baltimorean Raymond W. Hepner Jr., she has a normal daughter almost three years old, and does her own housework...
...UGENE U. BLALOCK...
Hopkins' famed Dr. Alfred Blalock and later surgeons, the change seen in him was the same: he turned from blue to pink while still on the operating table. On the sixth day he was walking. Now, five months after the operation, Kent is riding a two-wheeler. His heart, instead of growing bigger but weaker, seems actually to be smaller and stronger. Like the dog that had the same operation 3½ years ago, Kent can run and jump with the rest, no longer turns blue except after truly strenuous exercise...