Patients undergoing cardiac bypass operations normally have a thymectomy to facilitate
cannulation of the great vessels. Laboratory indices of immune function were measured in …

For the past 25 years an emergency pulmonary embolectomy service has been offered to
the hospitals serving a conurbation of 1.5 million. Fifty-five of these procedures have been …

Since 1960 we have performed 80 colonic interpositions on 79 children. We present a
retrospective review of their progress. Sixty‐nine interpositions were for long‐gap …

Anatomy to the surgeon is mainly of interest when it concerns parts that he ordinarily meets.
In this respect the diaphragm has only attained an important place in the last 15 years …

Since 1984 five patients who had previously had cavopulmonary shunts for cyanotic
congenital heart disease have returned to the Birmingham Childrens' Hospital with …

Nine cases of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung are described. One
was stillborn: two presented in the newborn period (one of them surviving after a lobectomy) …

Background Callaghan and Bigelow5 reported, in 1951, on artificial electrical pacemaking
for cardiac standstill and in 1952, Zoll 32 de-scribed successful treatment of ventricular …

M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography performed in a patient with acute pulmonary
embolism showed a sausage shaped, mobile mass in the right ventricular cavity highly …

Prior to 1970, most patients with tricuspid atresia (TA) and reducedpulmonary blood flow
were palliated by means of a systemic to pulmonaryartery shunt (SPAS). In Birmingham …

THE most important aspect of cardiac function is cardiac output. This report describes the
use of a specially designed elec-tromagnetic flow probe*(Williams-Barefoot pattern) in 20 …