Cardiac catheterization was per-formed at 30 days of life (Figures 3 and 4). Withtest balloon occlusion of the portosystemicshunt, the mean portal vein pressure was 9 mmHg with a simultaneous right atrial mean pres-sure of 2 mm Hg: a transportal gradient of 7 mmHg. The channel was occluded with 8- and 6-mm Amplatzer vascular plugs (AGA MedicalCorporation, Golden Valley, MN).
John Adams (July 1, 1825 â November 30, 1864) was an officer in the United States Army. With the onset of the American Civil War, he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate States Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general before being killed in action.
John Adams. John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington. Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity, he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence.