The radiologist's tragedy, or Bland-White-Garland syndrome (BWGS). On the 80(th) anniversary of the first clinical description of ALCAPA (anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery).
In 1933, three doctors from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Paul Dudley White, William Franklin Bland, and Joseph Garland, described a case of an anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) in a three-month-old boy. The infant died following two weeks of hospitalization. The child's father was Dr. Aubrey Hampton, a radiologist and colleague of White, Bland, and Garland. The paper presents a perspective view on the occasion of the 80(th) anniversary of the first clinical description of ALCAPA.
Pediatric Cardiology Department, Regional Specialist Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland.
Magdalena
M
Mazurak
Pediatric Cardiology Department, Regional Specialist Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland.
Jacek
J
Kusa
ALCAPA; Bland-White-Garland syndrome; history of medicine