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Young James McCIain was pathetically small and weak when he started his family's procession into the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa three years ago. The boy had suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
...Bleeding can be tied in with the emotions," says the doctor. And how else to explain why someone who understood his condition as well as Fred did would spend his time in the hospital picking at his nose until he had dug a hole all the way through his septum...
...From the thigh. Surgeon Saunders took a "split-thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side of the septum, sewed the nose together again, and packed it. The grafts, inside the nostrils, should take...
...child's heart or great vessels at birth (estimated annual U.S. incidence: 30,000 to 80,000 births). The great vessels (pulmonary artery and aorta) may be transposed, not harmful during fetal life but usually fatal soon after birth. Often there is a hole in the wall (septum) between the auricles or between the ventricles; there may be a hole permitting all four heart chambers to communicate. The aorta may override (straddle) both right and left ventricles. The neck (infundibulum) of the right ventricle may be narrowed, retarding movement of blood to the lungs. In the most famed...
Bailey made another contribution (January 1952) with an operation to close a hole in the wall between the auricles. The right auricle is bigger than it needs to be and is soft and pliable. So Bailey pressed the outer wall down over the septum, covering the hole in it, and joined the two together with a circular line of stitches. This made the right auricle into a doughnut-shaped chamber, with excellent results for the patient. Says Bailey with professional pride: "Technically, this is the best accomplishment I have to my credit, because it's so nearly perfect...