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...Ro Anne Campbell of Lakewood was only five when she was found to have a heart murmur. Doctors thought little of it, as such murmurs often disappear without treatment. But as Ro Anne grew, she had less and less energy. Diagnostic studies in 1959 at Denver's National Jewish Hospital showed that her heart's left ventricle had become enlarged by having to pump against the resistance of a narrowed aorta. She was too ill for an operation then. Even more disturbing, the doctors diagnosed Ro Anne's aortic abnormality as a form in which the great...
...Cool 77°. By last Labor Day, Ro Anne seemed strong enough to undergo the operation, and Dr. Melvin M. Newman, 41, N.J.H.'s chief of surgery, was satisfied that recent advances in technique had made the procedure safe enough. On operation morning, Ro Anne got a general anesthetic. Then she was put in an ice bath. After 15 minutes, her temperature had dropped about 6° F. She was taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct...
...When Ro Anne's temperature dropped to 82°, her heart stopped beating. The pump was already doing her heart's work and also cooling her blood. It continued to do so while the surgeons put clamps on the aorta both above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature...
...wine by the millions of gallons through canvas hoses from tank to tank. He has taken to radio and television to advertise his wares with singing commercials ("Ripple-the wine with that ring-a-ding flavor . . . Oh-oh, that ring-a-ding taste!''; "Everybody gooes, for Gypsy Ro...
...studied law at Porto Alegre Uni versity, where his stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 175 Ibs.) good looks won him a Ro meo's reputation. At the same time he built his own cattle ranch to fat prosperity...