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Reported three early pediatric operations using a systemic-to-pulmonary arterial shunt to increase pulmonary blood flow and reduce severe cyanosis.
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The record is the exact two-author 1945 JAMA report and its first three cases. Vivien Thomas's essential experimental and intraoperative contribution is retained separately; the record does not imply modern safety, long-term outcomes or sole invention by the byline authors.
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- JAMA record for the pulmonary-stenosis and atresia surgery report
- U.S. National Library of Medicine history of Helen Taussig and the blue-baby operation
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Alfred Blalock; Helen B. Taussig
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Blalock and Taussig: surgical treatment of pulmonary stenosis or atresia
Reported three early pediatric operations using a systemic-to-pulmonary arterial shunt to increase pulmonary blood flow and reduce severe cyanosis.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1945 JAMA report and its first three cases. Vivien Thomas's essential experimental and intraoperative contribution is retained separately; the record does not imply modern safety, long-term outcomes or sole invention by the byline authors.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Alfred Blalock; Helen B. Taussig
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.