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1899-1964
Codevloper of the Operation That Saved Blue Babies
A Pioneering Operation.
Blue Babies.
Vascular Surgery.
A Medical Partnership.
The Hero of Blue Babies.
Though the infant improved at first and began to gain weight, he died nine months later. But this pioneering surgery did prove that the pulmonary artery could be bypassed. In 1945, after Blalock had done sixty-five blue-baby operations, he suddenly became a hero in the press when reporters discovered he had saved 80 percent of his "doomed" patients. Patients came from all over the world; Blalock operated on suitable children after they had been thoroughly evaluated by Taussig. Before each operation the surgeons told the parents the risks were great. Fathers, they found, were the timid ones. Mothers usually said to go ahead. From 1945 to 1950 surgery was performed on more than one thousand cyanotic patients. With improvements in surgical technique and better selection...|
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