Infants with various forms of congenital heart disease require a stable source of blood flow to their lungs in order to survive until a more definitive operation can be performed. In a recent study, ...

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Have you heard of a Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt for rerouting subclavian arterial blood to the lungs as palliation for cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD)? But the BT shunt would never have seen ...

Taussig persuaded Dr. Alfred Blalock, a vascular surgeon, to try and relieve the obstruction. With Vivien Thomas, Blalock proved Taussig's hypothesis, then worked with her to develop a procedure, ...

Adviser: Vivien Thomas helped Dr. Alfred Blalock and Dr. Helen Taussig develop the ‘blue baby’ operation. Vivien T. Thomas, who was born in New Iberia, La., and raised in Nashville, Tenn., had hoped ...

Before Dr. Helen Taussig came along, pediatric cardiology didn't exist. Babies born with heart defects often turned blue and died. She helped them to live. Before Taussig spoke up, a morning sickness ...

Vivien T. Thomas, who was born in New Iberia, La., and raised in Nashville, Tenn., had hoped one day to become a surgeon. A bank failure during the early days of the Great Depression wiped away his ...

"Dr. Blalock was both a very skillfull (sic) and a very careful surgeon," Taussig would later write in a paper published by the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. "He took two years … ...

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both based in Memphis, Tenn., have named Bret Mettler, MD, as the new chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and ...