[5] Vietti went to Wayne University College of Medicine in 1958 for specialist training in hematology.
[6] In 1962, she received word that her sister, Ardel Vietti was kidnapped and was being held a prisoner of the Viet Cong.
[11][12] In 1962 and 1963, she was a principal investigator in a Washington University study on the effects of lead intoxication in children.
[9] She published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and was known to remove her name from some studies so that younger researchers would get greater exposure for their work.
[9] Vietti co-authored Clinical Pediatric Oncology (1973) which has four editions and according to Washington University is "one of the premier texts in its field.
[6] Vietti died on January 25, 2010, at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Town and Country of natural causes; her health had been deteriorating for the previous few months.