A difficult operation during which new tissue was stitched on to a man's heart muscle was performed for the first time in Australia by a Sydney surgeon at Prince Alfred Hospital. The patient was a man suffering from angina pectoris, which is caused by a 1 starving of the blood vessels of the heart. The surgeon first opened the man’s chest and exposed the heart. Then he took the omentum, a tissue, with fat, which covers the bowels, and drew it up. This he stitched right into the muscle of the heart. In time this tissue will give new blood vessels to the muscle of the heart. The operation was first performed in England by a leading surgeon in association with Lord Dawson of Penn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 2
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