HEART FREED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 22

HEART FREED.

BOLD SURGICAL operation. F ORTUXATE AUSTRALIAN". • f ° r ", ard to a noim «l life "freed lii r °l ieration which, whii a,t fro,n « of stone ft. " a * rest rioting it. Mr. A M was J""' agWl 2 °- ° f Kcm - Melbourne! hit «„. IW V^ e ,' ljrer by tl,e Monterev on " l,nf *. to Aiu-tralia. When l,i, XVh i Uas as * lime deposit. iiJn W *VT 'V closing the vein leadWJ ?°. e heart - Mr - Catkin* decided to go to the United Staters, and the fW'enition was carried out bv Dr. . tuarj Y\. Harrington, of the Mavo Rochester. Minnesota. During the operation tlie heart lav exposed partly in and partly out of the i' V . fw tv, '° ' ,( >urs. and the rock-like mi stance was cut away. To completely Hear the calcified coating the heart then had to be lifted out of the chest. In addition, it ivn* necessary to cut off the tips of four of Mr. Wat kin*' ribs, and [ between fifty and sixty small veins had • to be rut ;;iid tied. Mr. Watkirra recovered rapidly after the operation. oxygen being until the heart could function without artificial aid. It appeared that he would be able to leave the hospital three weeks after the remarkable operation, but he then developed influenza, and lie was not able to leave for a further oix weeks. Mr. \\ atkiii* feels that he is better every day. and that he now ha«» a new lca*c of life.