Correspondence, Owen H. Wangensteen to Alfred Blalock, reporting successful repairs of interventricular defects in Minnesota
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Title
Correspondence, Owen H. Wangensteen to Alfred Blalock, reporting successful repairs of interventricular defects in Minnesota
Subject
Open Heart Surgery
Description
Alfred Blalock of The Johns Hopkins Hospital was a well known cardiac surgeon who performed the first procedure to treat the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot (1944). Owen Wangensteen, chief of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota, was a colleague of Blalock's, and wrote to him to announce the success of the controlled cross circulation procedure developed by C. Walton Lillehei's surgical team. Lillehei's team was the first to repair the congenital heart defect known as a ventricular septal defect (1954).
Creator
Owen H. Wangensteen
Source
"Blalock, Alfred, 1943-1967," Box 7, Folder 191, Department of Surgery records, uarc1007, University of Minnesota Archives
Publisher
University of Minnesota
Date
1-Apr-54
Contributor
University of Minnesota
Rights
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Format
Document
Language
eng
Identifier
oh0078
Coverage
Open Heart Surgery
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Paper
Citation
Owen H. Wangensteen, “Correspondence, Owen H. Wangensteen to Alfred Blalock, reporting successful repairs of interventricular defects in Minnesota,” Gallery, accessed March 25, 2023, http://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/items/show/3344.