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2. John W. Kirklin - Wikipedia

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   John Webster Kirklin (April 5, 1917 – April 21, 2004) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon, general surgeon, prolific author and medical educator who is best remembered for refining John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine via a pump-oxygenator to make feasible under direct vision, routine open-heart surgery and repairs of some congenital heart defects.

3. List of cardiologists - Wikipedia

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   As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. J. Willis Hurst: 1920 2011 United States Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh: 1929: Macedonia [22] Yariv Khaykin: Canada [23] John Kjekshus: 1936: Norway

4. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...

5. Amit Patel - Wikipedia

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   Patel has recently developed a stem cell spray for rapid healing of heart surgery and burns. [6] He is also the founder of Xogenex LLC, a gene therapy company for heart failure. The project is code-named the "Bourne-Project" because it has multiple genes to improve heart function which can be regulated and non-virally integrated into patients.

6. Jack Copeland (surgeon) - Wikipedia

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   Jack Greene Copeland (born 1942) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who has established procedures in heart transplantation including repeat heart transplantation, the implantation of total artificial hearts (TAH) to bridge the time to heart transplant, innovations in left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and the technique of "piggybacking" a second heart (heterotopic heart transplant) in ...

7. O. H. Frazier - Wikipedia

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   O. H. "Bud" Frazier is a heart surgeon and director of cardiovascular surgery research at the Texas Heart Institute (THI), best known for his work in mechanical circulatory support (MCS) of failing hearts using left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and total artificial hearts (TAH).

8. Cardiothoracic surgery - Wikipedia

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   In most countries, cardiothoracic surgery is further subspecialized into cardiac surgery (involving the heart and the great vessels) and thoracic surgery (involving the lungs, esophagus, thymus, etc.); the exceptions are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, India and some European Union countries such as Portugal.

9. Ellsworth Wareham - Wikipedia

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   Leonard Bailey, the surgeon who transplanted a baboon heart into a baby at Loma Linda University in 1984, trained under Wareham as a medical student in the late 1960s. The child, Baby Fae , was born prematurely with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and Bailey's surgery made international headlines.