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The Blalock-Taussig Operation and Subsequent Progress in Surgical Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases
Dan G. McNamara, MD
JAMA. 1984;251(16):2139-2141.
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In 1945, few would have predicted the sustained worldwide interest in, and profound influence on, the surgical treatment of heart disease that would follow the report of three children operated upon for a cyanotic malformation of the heart. The paper was submitted for publication when the patients were only a few months postoperative, probably leading some critics to question whether the report of success was a little premature. The authors acknowledged and defended the promptness of the report as follows: "The results are sufficiently encouraging to warrant an early report."1
The paper was not a hastily assembled report of a new procedure but included, first, a methodical exposition on the prevailing theories of the mechanism of cyanosis in congenital heart disease, then a step-by-step review of how Dr Taussig developed the concept of surgically increasing the volume of blood to the pulmonary circulation in cyanotic malformations with pulmonary stenosis
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Author Affiliations
From the Cardiology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston.
Footnotes
Reprint requests to Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, 6221 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr McNamara).
A commentary on Blalock A, Taussig HB: The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia. JAMA 1945;128:189-202.
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