MN90: Opening the Era of Open Heart Surgery

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For most of history, the human heart was off limits to medicine. The first closed heart surgery began in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s, a pair of physicians who worked in mobile surgical units of World War II discovered that open heart surgery could be an option.

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Articles

Lillehei, C. Walton (1918–1999)

Topics

Health and Medicine