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...advances in technique had made the procedure safe enough. On operation morning, Ro Anne got a general anesthetic. Then she was put in an ice bath. After 15 minutes, her temperature had dropped about 6° F. She was taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct it by putting in a patch. They inserted tubes in the great veins near her heart and in a thigh artery, to hook her up to a heart-lung machine...
...wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected, and Ro Anne's chest was closed. For the first time in her life, her blood had a normal, unobstructed flow from her heart to her entire body...
...operation while Patricia Karen Holten of Aurora was starting back to school after a speedy recovery from the same sort of surgery. And Patricia had a similar medical history: first a heart murmur, then gradually failing strength until an operation seemed unavoidable. But to the surgeons who opened her chest two years ago, her aortic narrowing seemed inoperable. Last summer Patricia went to Dr. Arthur E. Prevedel, 44, who put her into Children's Hospital in Denver. He worked plastic tubes through arm veins into both sides of her heart, injected a radiopaque dye and took X rays...
...Technically known as supravalvular aortic stenosis; not to be confused with coarctation of the aorta (a far commoner condition), which is a narrowing of the aorta just beyond its "big bend" in the upper chest, several inches from the heart...
...Brandeis. the nation's first Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian liberal arts uni versity, has in only 14 years created a major U.S. campus in Waltham, Mass. Now it needs a war chest to lure top scholars, notably in its weak departments of economics, philosophy, comparative languages. The library of 300,000 volumes needs strengthening, as does research in humanities. The new grant, says President Abram Sachar. "does for our economic stability what Phi Beta Kappa accreditation did for our academic stature...