N.Z. BABY TO UNDERGO OPERATION IN U.S.A.
PALMERSTON NORTH, iast night. j ■ Ai: article in a recent American magazine, Collier's, describing rare hcait operations being performed in he United States with about 80 per j " nt. success, will result in Matrie ! Stewart, five-year-old twin daughter j in' Mrs. R. J. *W. Rose, of Palmerston ! North, heing sent to America in I Anril for an operation 011 May 5. Since hirth, Marie has heen sufferj . yg from an affliction which is caused i by a block in the blood vessel hej tween the heart and lungg. She has I heen attended hy many doctors in ; Xcw- Zealand, none of whom lcft any ! 'opo of recovery for the child. j The article in Collier's magazine ! was read and steps were t-aken imme- } Jiately lo prosecute further enquiries. j '1 ne details, together with X-ray I ehotograjths, were sent to America, j and recently woril was veceived that | he American surgeon, Dr. Blaylock, if Ihe Johns Hopkins Ho.^pital, Baltituiivo, would undertake to perform Ihe I •peration on May 5 of this year. This ! rperation has nev(>r befitre heen atj r > npted outside the U.S.A.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5306, 20 January 1947, Page 5
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191N.Z. BABY TO UNDERGO OPERATION IN U.S.A. Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5306, 20 January 1947, Page 5
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