Word: interventricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
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