Alfred Blalock had a remarkable career as a clinical surgeon, laboratory investigator, and a teacher of medical students and residents. This article examines certain potential critical influences on his career, including Drs William Halsted and Barney Brooks, and Dr Blalock's early years as a resident and subsequently a faculty member at Vanderbilt. It is intended as a focused review, utilizing...

Duktus bağımlı siyanotik doğuştan kalp hastalığı olan beş aylık erkek bebeğe 4 mm’lik sığır mezenterik ven grefti ile palyasyon amaçlı modifiye Blalock-Taussig şant ameliyatı uygulandı. Ameliyat sonrası yedinci günde tekrar tıkanan şant cerrahi olarak revize edildi. Ancak, ikinci ameliyattan altı gün sonra greftte tekrar retromboz tespit edildi. Şant materyaline perkütan yolla başarılı bir şeki...

INTRODUCTION In resource-poor settings, the modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) is often performed for symptomatic relief of Fallot's tetralogy. From September 2011, we adopted the strictly posterior thoracotomy (SPOT), a minimal-access technique for the MBTS and report the cosmetic advantages in this communication. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the records of consecutive patients in ...

We describe a case in which a discrete atretic segment of the right pulmonary artery (due to a Blalock-Taussig shunt) was reconstructed using a new radiofrequency system, balloon dilation, and stent implantation in an 18-month-old patient. The shunt was coil-occluded. The technique and applications of this novel approach are discussed.

The spontaneous functional closure of the interatrial communication in total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) subsequent to surgical correction of the TAPVD in infants is reported. Three cases are documented with descriptions of clinical features, cardiac catheterization data, thermodilution curves, and angiography. This evidence suggests that it might be unnecessary in infants to cl...

a four month old male infant was referred to the pediatric clinic of afshar hospital in yazd city because of cyanosis. on physical examination, patient had central cyanosis, single second heart sound, a grade iii/vi continuous murmur in left clavicular area, abdominal distension and large sized smooth and movable abdominal mass in right upper quadrant of abdomen. transthoracic echocardiography ...