Etymology

Taussig-Bing syndrome

Today it means: A cyanotic congenital heart defect in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD). Full definition →

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The story

Named after Helen B. Taussig and Richard Bing, who first described it in 1949.

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