Correspondence, B.R. Billimoria of India, to C. Walton Lillehei regarding the name of the firm where the Artificial Oxygenator can be purchased

Correspondence, B.R. Billimoria of India, to C. Walton Lillehei regarding the name of the firm where the Artificial Oxygenator can be purchased

Open Heart Surgery

B.R. Billimoria, Bombay, India

"B, 1956," Box 91, C. Walton Lillehei papers, uarc2000-7, University of Minnesota Archives

University of Minnesota

August 28th, 1956

C. Walton Lillehei

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Open Heart Surgery

Northcote Nursing Home,
Ormiston Road, Bombay 1.

28th August, 1956.

Dear Dr.Lillehei,

I was very interested in your article of the January issue
of Diseases of the Chest. I shall be very grateful to you, if you could
let me know the name of the firm where I can purchase the Artificial
Oxygenator. I shall also be grateful if you will let me have a reprint
of any papers of yours which describes the use of the machine in detail,
and also the paper which describes the surgical technique of intra-
cardiac surgery.

I am shortly writing a paper on Congenital Heart Disease.
I shall very much appreciate if you could let me have your results of
direct vision intra-cardiac surgery up to now.

I have had to fall back on the various shunt or Brock
operations for cyanotic children, because the various Heart & Lung
machines available are far too expensive and complicated. I feel that
your technique may solve my problems.

I do trust that you will forgive me for troubling you.
With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

[Signature: B. R. Billimoria]

B.R.Billimoria, F.R.C.S.

C.Walton Lillehei, M.D.,
University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S.A.
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