The surgery treats the vein of Galen malformation in the brain. Preemie Baby with Rare Heart Defect Has Life Saved by Surgery That Pushed 'the Limits of What's Possible' According to the AHA ...

Researchers in the Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions Center found ... "This work paves the way for new and revised guidelines for vein of Galen intervention," says Orbach.

In it Prof. Farrington discusses three topics: (1) the decline of anatomy and surgery after Galen; (2) the limitation of ancient medicine to the rich and the professional classes; (3) the invasion ...

Galen had read the works of the ancient Greeks ... it did not stop large numbers of Paré's patients dying after surgery. Very little was known about germs and the surgeons' dirty hands and ...

However, Galen had only dissected the bodies of animals ... Paré changed ideas about surgery. Before Paré, wounds were treated by pouring boiling oil into them. To stop the bleeding, they ...