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Abrege des debuts de la chirurgie cardiaque. Conference prononcee le 6 mai 2006, a l'occasion du 30 eme anniversaire de la chirurgie cardiaque a Liege
Limet, Raymond
2006In Revue Médicale de Liège, 61 (12), p. 812-9
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Abstract :
[en] Beginnings of cardiac surgery were primarily pericardiac surgery: persisting ductus ligation (Gross), coarctation repair (Crafoord) and Blalock's seminal operation of arterio-pulmonary shunt. The first really open cardiac procedure is due to Gibbon who worked up an apparatus capable to assume heart and lungs function. In the same time, Lillehei operated on congenital cardiac lesions in children with the concept of "cross-circulation". For a long time confined in Minneapolis and Rochester, cardiac surgery spread all over USA. Starr lead the valvular surgery with the use of caged ball prosthesis (Starr-Edwards); Effler and Favaloro developed coronary surgery; outside USA, the Russian Kolessov used for the first time an internal mammary artery. As far as cardiac transplantation is concerned, a debt is due to Hardy, but the merit of the-first successful cardiac transplantation goes to South-African Barnard.
Disciplines :
Surgery
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Author, co-author :
Limet, Raymond ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique
Language :
French
Title :
Abrege des debuts de la chirurgie cardiaque. Conference prononcee le 6 mai 2006, a l'occasion du 30 eme anniversaire de la chirurgie cardiaque a Liege
Alternative titles :
[en] The Beginnings of Cardiac Surgery
Publication date :
December 2006
Journal title :
Revue Médicale de Liège
ISSN :
0370-629X
eISSN :
2566-1566
Publisher :
Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
61
Issue :
12
Pages :
812-9
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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