When was the first successful treatment option transformed the treatment options for "blue babies" with CHD?
November 29, 1944, Drs. Alfred Blalock and Helen B. Taussig from Johns Hopkins Hospital decided to proceed with the anastomosis, or joining, of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery in a cyanotic child.
In 1938 when Dr. Robert E. Gross from Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital ligated the first patent ductus arteriosis.
December 5, 1946, Mayo Clinic physicians Drs. Howard Burchell and John Pender perform the first cardiac catheterization to diagnose an atrial septal defect. No operation to treat this congenital defect had been invented at that point.
In 1816 when a young French physician named Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec invented the stethescope.
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