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Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias: 1933: 2007: Venezuela: Barouh Berkovits: 1926: 2012: Czechoslovakia: Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers [9] Richard N. Fogoros: United States [10] Werner Forssmann: 1904: 1979: Germany: 1929 first cardiac ...
The institute expanded to establish the nation's first outpatient cardiac catheterization laboratory in 1979 and the world's first school of cardiac ultrasound in 1982. [ 4 ] In 1998, Diethrich founded the Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and served as its medical director and Chief of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery from 1998 to 2010.
By 2012 he had performed 10,000 heart surgeries at Michigan mostly on babies, [1] and that year he was also appointed chair of a newly created department of cardiac surgery at Michigan. [ 2 ] References
The STS National Database was established in 1989 as an initiative for quality improvement and patient safety among cardiothoracic surgeons. The Database has four components—the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD), the General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD), the Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD), and the Intermacs Database—and now houses more than 7.5 million surgical records.
Walter Randolph "Ranny" Chitwood Jr. is known for his work as a cardiothoracic surgeon [1] [dead link ] at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University located in Greenville, North Carolina. [2] [dead link ] Chitwood is recognized as the first heart surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in the US. [citation needed]
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William DeVries (born 1943), first permanent artificial heart transplant; Eric Mühe (1938–2005), first laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Paul Randall Harrington (1911–1980), first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod. John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery; Simon Hullihen (1810–1857), The Father of ...
Alain Frédéric Carpentier (born 11 August 1933) is a French cardiac surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the "father of modern mitral valve repair". He is most well-known for the development and popularization of a number of mitral valve repair techniques.