Common Arterial Trunk

Historical Accounts of Congenital Heart Surgery

“…John Kirklin perfected the heart-lung machine that John Gibbon introduced and when Dr Kirklin noted a high incidence of heart block with ventricular septal defect closure, he traveled to Chicago Of some interest is that cardioplegia was not yet introduced and that arterial blood gas determination was not clinically available (Reproduced with permission from Mavroudis and Backer). 147 (E-G) Zelda Zelensky started to work with Farouk Idriss shortly after Virginia Sampter. Her style was tonal grades of grey and was depicted to give more texture to the illustration.…”

“…The initial drawings of the arterial switch operation were illustrated by Virginia Sampter (Figure 9A-D top panel). 147 Subsequently, during the improved clinical experience with the arterial switch operation, it was Zelda Zelinsky who illustrated the progressive steps of the arterial switch operation (Figure 9 bottom panel). 148 In 1989, Dr Constantine Mavroudis succeeded Dr Farouk Idriss and brought his own vision of medical education through publication and illustration.…”

“…(A-D) Virginia Sumpter also worked with Dr Farouk Idriss, whose pioneering efforts to develop the arterial switch operation started in 1961. Her rendition of Idriss's notion of the arterial switch operation is shown in four drawings depicting the important steps of the procedure.Of some interest is that cardioplegia was not yet introduced and that arterial blood gas determination was not clinically available (Reproduced with permission from Mavroudis and Backer) 147. (E-G) Zelda Zelensky started to work with Farouk Idriss shortly after Virginia Sampter.…”