Helen B. Taussig
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Helen B. Taussig
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Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot. This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Taussig was parti
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American cardiologist (1898–1986)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B._Taussig
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2004-12-11T15:05:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T05:30:52Z
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