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The first successful surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on September 4, 1895, at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The first successful surgery of the heart, performed without any complications, was by Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt , Germany , who repaired a stab wound to the right ...
Frank Leven Albert Gerbode, popularly known as Frank Gerbode, (February 3, 1907 – December 6, 1984) was an American cardiovascular surgeon [1] and founder of the Medical Research Institute and the Heart Research Institute at Pacific Medical Center. [2] He performed the first open heart surgery west of the Mississippi in 1954. [3]
William Thornton Mustard OC MBE (August 8, 1914 – December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon.In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute.
Francisco Romero was a Spanish physician who became the first successful heart surgeon, [1] on record, by performing an open pericardiostomy to treat a pericardial effusion in 1801. He performed the first successful open heart surgery in history. [ 2 ]
Forest Dewey Dodrill (January 26, 1902 – June 28, 1997) was a medical doctor at Harper University Hospital at Wayne State University in Michigan who performed the first successful open heart surgery using a mechanical pump. [1] [2]
In 1959 the Hammersmith team, with Dennis Melrose's heart-lung machine, Cleland as the lead surgeon and Hugh Bentall as the assistant surgeon, were invited by Alexander Bakulev to the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow where, watched by over 200 surgeons from the Soviet Union, they carried out five open-heart operations leading to ...
Preparing for open-heart surgery Before I could go under the knife, I had to undergo a series of pre-surgery exams, from an ultrasound to a CT scan to blood work to an intensive catheter procedure ...
Floyd John Lewis (1916 – September 20, 1993) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl, on 2 September 1952. [1] For the next 3 years, Lewis and colleagues operated on 60 patients with atrial septal defects using hypothermia and inflow occlusion. [2]