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...badly crushed when he fell under a truck near Pine Bluff, Ark. In the membranes separating the chambers of his heart were three holes which allowed the blood to flow inefficiently back and forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
...Lillehei and Richard Varco clamped off the great veins carrying the blood toward the heart, inserted a tube, and led the blood out to the input tube of the dog's lung. Inside its cylinder the lung was kept supplied with fresh oxygen. As the boy's blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great...
...Lillehei took 17 minutes to close the opening in Gregory's heart, believes it is the first time this delicate operation had been done with the heart in plain view and "dry," though still beating because its muscle was getting a full blood supply. Gregory stood the operation well but died a few days later of pneumonia (to which children with such heart defects are especially liable...
...daring technique of "controlled cross transfusion" as a possible aid in heart operations had been under study for years by a team of eleven Minneapolis doctors, headed by Surgeon Clarence Walton Lillehei. Not until six weeks ago did the Minneapolis doctors, finally satisfied that they had taken every precaution possible against its many dangers, feel ready to try it. Their first patient was Gregory Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable...