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When Betty Vanella was born in 1930, nature seemed to have gone out of its way to do everything wrong in building her heart. The two "great vessels" were hooked up in reverse: the aorta, which is supposed to send oxygenated blood from the left lower chamber out to the body, emerged instead from the right lower chamber; the pulmonary artery, which is supposed to send used venous blood from the right lower chamber to the lungs for oxygenation, was connected where the aorta should have been. To make matters worse, the outflow of blood from the heart through...
...Like Being Reborn." Last month Betty Vanella celebrated her 37th birthday at home in San Jose, Calif. She was a robust 104 Ibs. and announced that she was going to take up golf and swimming. Her lips and fingernail beds were a healthy pink, thanks to a full supply of oxygenated blood. "It's like being reborn," she said...
...heart exposed (see diagram), Dr. Gerbode stripped away part of its outer sac (pericardium) for later use. Next he sewed up the ductus arteriosus where it joined the pulmonary artery. Then, with his patient connected to the heart-lung pump, he set its heat-exchanger to chill Mrs. Vanella's blood to 68° F., to reduce the brain's oxygen demands...
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