In 1944 Blalock, with Thomas by his side, performed the first " blue baby " operation on Eileen Saxon, a 15-month-old baby.
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"The story goes that my daddy walked in the bedroom with a blue baby and Mother screamed, ` You killed my baby, "'
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In 1888 Fallot described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect responsible for blue baby syndrome.
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In drinking water, the chemical can cause " blue baby syndrome, " a condition that impairs metabolism and deprives brains of oxygen in infants.
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Blue baby syndrome or methemoglobinemia mostly affects infants under 6 months of age, although the most common age range is 0 to 4 months.
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It interferes with the necessary transformation of methemoglobin into hemoglobin, thus decreasing the blood's ability to carry oxygen and causing methemoglobinemia, or blue baby syndrome.
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Also present in Tomb 2 were a female mummy known as " Cherchen Woman " and an infant known as the " Blue Baby ".
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In high concentrations, nitrates can cause miscarriages and " blue baby syndrome, " in which an infant's red blood cells are unable to carry sufficient oxygen.
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Helen Taussig ( Mary Stuart Masterson ), the pediatrician / cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, challenges Blalock to come up with a surgical solution for her Blue Babies.
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Dr . Blalock and Thomas were trying to find a way to cure'blue babies', or babies whose pulmonary arteries were blocked, limiting oxygen supply to their blood.
