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...University of Cincinnati surgeons, headed by Dr. James A. Helmsworth, did not try to sever the two great vessels and switch them. The job would have been forbiddingly difficult and almost certainly fatal. Instead, the doctors adopted a method devised by Swedish Surgeon Ake Senning: they rearranged the heart's inflow pipes, which are only half as big and therefore twice as suitable for surgery...
...Senning-Cincinnati operation is not the answer for all transposition babies. In many such cases there is also a hole in the septum (wall) between the ventricles. For these infants, Dr. Helmsworth suggested different types of surgery. But for those without a septal defect, adding one transposition to another offers the first substantial hope of near-normal life...
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