DELICATE OPERATION
BLOOD SAMPLE FROM HEART DIAGNOSIS OF CONGENITAL DISEASE p.A. AUCKLAND, Dec. 6. Catheterisation of the heart was undertaken for the first time in New Zealand at the Greenlane Hospital he into the heart of a 19-year-old girl patient was passed a catheter, which is a long thin tube. It had been pushed up an arm vein through other vessels, and right into the heart. Three-quarters of an hour after the task began the specialists concerned were able to relax. They had been successful in a most intricate operation for the final diagnosis in a complicated case of congenital heart disease. This operation solved a difficult diagnostic problem. ~ , _ Because the blood which flows through the different compartments of the heart has an oxygen content different from that of the blood of the vessels in the arms and legs, samples of blood from the heart and from other vessels are necessary for an accurate diagnosis in some congenital heart diseases. With the catheter in place, blood can safely be drawn from parts of the heart by a- syringe through the catheter. Team work is essential. Those who performed this examination were the surgeon, Mr R. Nicks, and the radiologist, Dr N. Klein, with the bio-chemists, Mr J. R. Brown and Mr A. Murphy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 6
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