TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)
1898 – 1986
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
1945
#3043
The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.
The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…
1947
#2878
Congenital malformations of the heart.
This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…
1949
#12289
Complete transposition of the aorta and a levoposition of the pulmonary artery; clinical, physiological, and pathological findings.
Taussig–Bing syndrome, a cyanotic congenital heart defect[1] in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD).[2]
1974
#12245
Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.
Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.
