Word: ochsner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surgeons in New Orleans. Doctors had assumed that Suzette Marie Creppel, 17, would eventually have to undergo open-heart surgery to correct an atrial septal defect-a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers of her heart. But Drs. Terry King and Noel Mills of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital decided to try to plug the leak with two tiny, round patches-and without surgery...