Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They hooked up the tiny 7-lb. 3-oz. child to a heart-lung machine. Then they took the venae cavae, the two great veins that carry used blood back to the heart, cut them away from their normal position leading into the right upper chamber (auricle) and led them over to the left side. As near simultaneously as possible, the team of surgeons took the pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from lungs to heart, and severed them from the left auricle. They stitched the venae cavae to the places where the pulmonary veins had entered the left auricle...
Complete Reversal. When the surgeons' clamps were removed and the heart-lung machine was shut off, the baby's heart resumed its job of pumping blood to her body. But now she had a more total transposition than the one that nature had inflicted upon her. All her used, deoxygenated blood flowed through the left side of her heart, and her reoxygenated blood through the right-the exact reverse of normal, but almost as effective...
...first step, the Health Services will issue a pamphlet this month emphasizing that long-time cigarette smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer and chronic bronchitis than non-smokers...
...liver had been replaced by one taken from a dead man. A boy of twelve was living a normal life in his Pueblo, Colo., home with his mother's spleen inside him, while his mother went about her chores with no spleen at all. A couple of lung transplants have been tried, and though the patients died, there will soon be others...
When the fungus goes no farther than the windpipe and lungs, it may touch off what seems like a bad cold. More severe cases are often mistaken for bronchitis and tuberculosis. But the deadliest form of the disease is inflammation of the brain covering. Cryptococcal meningitis was always fatal until the antifungal drug, amphotericin B, came into use six years ago. Now the death rate is down to about 30% of meningitis victims. But nobody knows exactly how many cases of CN lung disease there are because the vast majority are not diagnosed correctly. New York City records about...