HEART TIED WITH CELLOPHANE
DELICATE OPERATION IN AUSTRALIA (Rec. 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 27. The heart of an 18-year-old girl has been tied with Cellophane in a delicate two-hour operation by an American Army surgeon (Major P. W. Gebauer). The girl was facing almost certain death. Doctors expect that the operation will be a complete success, but it will be several months before the girl is restored to normal health. A large number of Australian surgeons assembled to watch Major Gebauer’s technique. The operation was to tie the main large blood vessels at the root of, the heart, first in the ordinary surgical manner and then with Cellophane, which by dissolving, .will enable a leak between two sides of the heart to be closed gradually. * The operation had been performed previously in Perth by Major Gebauer. The method was first used in Boston m 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24193, 28 February 1944, Page 4
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