Plastic Buttons Plug Holes in j Young Hearts Br ALTON L. BLAXESLEE DENVER iJD PlaxtiC buttons re plugging up dangerqus holes inside children's hearts, surgeon announced Tuesday. -i Four children are well and ap parently improved with their but-toned-up hearts. Dr. Henry Swan, University of Colorado Medical school, told the American Medical Association. All were born with a hole in the septum, the inner wall separating the two upper chambers of the heart. Blood could gush back and forth making the heart work hard er. All faced danger of death from heart failure. The plastic button is sewed up against the hole. In a few weeks, smooth tissue grows over the but ton. In some youngsters, the button didn't close the ho' - completely but blocked it enough to bring improve ment, Dr. Swan said. A fifth child, whose heart already was failing, died a few days after the new operation. Neat sewing puts the button in place. Both sides of the chest are open ed. The surgeon thrusts his finger inside the heart through an incision on the right side. The eye end of the needle is pushed in from the left side of the heart, through the septum and out the right side The two ends of silk thread at tached to the button then are pulled through the heart, with the surgeon guiding the needle with his finger. The threads are pulled right from, the left side of the heart. The button slips through the in cision on the right side and plugs the hole in the septum. The heart keeps pumping all the time. A second new operation, quick and delicate, has removed shell fragments lodged in the hearts of two Korean war veterans, Dr. Swan reported. The blood flow through the heart is shut off by clamps, while the surgeon opens the heart to see and remove the metal. The surgeon has only one and one-half minutes for this work for the blood flow can't be shut off safely any longer than that. 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