Blalock and Taussig: surgical treatment of pulmonary stenosis or atresia

What changed

Reported three early systemic-to-pulmonary shunt operations with immediate clinical improvement.

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.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.

Contributors

• Alfred Blalock · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Helen B. Taussig · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• JAMA record for the pulmonary-stenosis and atresia surgery report

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