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Use in Three Hundred Five Patients

C. WALTON LILLEHEI, M.D.; HERBERT E. WARDEN, M.D.; RICHARD A. DeWALL, M.D.; PAUL STANLEY, M.D.; RICHARD L. VARCO, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(6):928-945.

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The past decade has brought forth an impressive display of clinical achievements in the field of cardiac surgery. As recently as 1948 there were only three congenital cardiac lesions then amenable to surgical treatment. These were patent ductus arteriosus, coarctation of the aorta, and the systemic-pulmonary artery anastomotic procedure for tetralogy of Fallot. In effect, the interior of the heart represented an important barrier to progress, the last anatomic frontier of the many that have confronted surgeons through the generations.

The present important advance in cardiac surgery has been the development of the open operation, in which the surgeon sees precisely what has to be done within the cardiac interior chamber and then proceeds to carry out the necessary reparative measures in a dry field, unhurriedly.

Every advance such as this brings the possibility of a fuller life to many who are at present disabled or handicapped. The magnitude of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Minneapolis

From the Department of Surgery, and Variety Club Heart Hospital, University of Minnesota Medical School.; Research Fellow, American Heart Association (Dr. DeWall). Traveling Fellow, R. S. McLaughlin Foundation (Dr. Stanley).

Footnotes
This work was supported by Research Grants from the Graduate School, University of Minnesota; Minnesota Heart Association; Life Insurance Medical Research Fund, and the American Heart Association, and the National Heart Institute, Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service Grant No. 830.

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