Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth malformation, enlargement of the right ventricle, is a result of these three. It subsides when they are corrected. Youngest of three noted brothers, sons of Minneapolis Dentist C. I. Lillehei (still active in practice at 70): Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei is 44; James, 38, specializes in lung physiology; Surgeon Richard...
...some mitral and aortic valves are so badly damaged and distorted that they are beyond repair. If he could take a piece of metal out of the heart, Harken wondered, why couldn't he put one in? Then he could replace an irreparable valve. When heart-lung machines were perfected, the way was opened for valve replacement. By now. Dr. Harken has implanted 47 heart valve replacements and many hundreds of similar heart valve operations have been done across the U.S. Human Substitute. Aside from Dr. Harken's work, most of the pioneering in heart surgery has been...
After Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. did the first successful operation in which the patient's circulation and breathing were taken over completely by his heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers...
...only11 Ib. 14 oz. Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 42, another bold vanguardsman in this field, regularly schedules four operations a day. By now, he has done 450 major operations on infants less than a year old. He will put even these tiny patients on the heart-lung machine if necessary, though he prefers not to. Either way, baby surgery is far safer than it used to be, says Dr. Cooley...
...brain when there is critical narrowing in an accessible artery in the neck. His colleague, Dr. Cooley, did the first operation to remove an aneurysm (a thin, ballooned-out section) from the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. He tried putting a patient on the heart-lung machine two years ago while he removed a "pulmonary embolism," a usually fatal blood clot in the pulmonary artery. Now. with three successes logged, Cooley believes the procedure should be made generally available, with disposable oxygen kits ready in all major hospitals...