Origin The Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen performed the first known surgery on the heart itself on September 4, 1895, in Oslo, ligating a bleeding coronary artery in a stabbing victim; the field advanced through Henry Souttar's 1925 mitral valve surgery and the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas team's first successful pediatric cardiac operation in 1944.
Cardiothoracic surgery, encompassing cardiac and thoracic surgery, is the surgical specialty treating conditions of the heart, great vessels and organs within the chest, including coronary artery disease, valve disease and lung cancer. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own accountThe Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen performed the first known surgery on the heart itself on September 4, 1895, in Oslo, ligating a bleeding coronary artery in a stabbing victim; the field advanced through Henry Souttar's 1925 mitral valve surgery and the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas team's first successful pediatric cardiac operation in 1944. 2 Classification
Type/Classification Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Notable Specialists
Source Adib Jatene (Wikipedia)
Source Adrian Kantrowitz (Wikipedia)
Ake Senning, Healers Cardiac surgeon who performed the first implanted pacemaker operation in 1958.
Alfred Blalock developed the Blalock-Taussig shunt, pioneering cardiac surgery.
Source Bill Frist (Wikipedia)
Source C. Walton Lillehei (Wikipedia)
Source Chiaki Mukai (Wikipedia)
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
Source Christian Cabrol (source article)
Source Clarence Crafoord (source article)
Daniel Hale Williams performed one of the first successful pericardium surgeries.
Denton Cooley performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
Source Devi Shetty (Wikipedia)
Source Dwight Harken (Wikipedia)
Source Ferdinand Sauerbruch (Wikipedia)
Source Giancarlo Rastelli (Wikipedia)
Source Gilles Dreyfus (source article)
Source Henry Heimlich (Wikipedia)
Source Leonard Lee Bailey (Wikipedia)
Source Ludwig Rehn (Wikipedia)
Source Maurice Neligan (Wikipedia)
Michael DeBakey was a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who invented the roller pump.
Source Nikolai Amosov (Wikipedia)
Source Norman Barrett (Wikipedia)
Norman Bethune, a thoracic surgeon, developed a mobile blood transfusion service.
Norman Shumway is regarded as the father of heart transplantation in the United States.
Source Rafael Espada (Wikipedia)
Source Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (Wikipedia)
Source Zbigniew Religa (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification tableQuote, Classification table
Surgical specialties focus on manually operative and instrumental techniques to treat disease.
2. Cardiac Surgery (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.
History section, 19th century subsection
The first surgery on the heart itself was performed by Axel Cappelen on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo.
View the Source Ferdinand Sauerbruch (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Biography section, thorax medicineQuote, Notable Specialists: Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Biography section, thorax medicine
allowed heart and lung operations to take place at greatly reduced risk
Bill Frist (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Bill Frist, Lead paragraph [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Bill Frist, Lead paragraph [in-group]
trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon
Leonard Lee Bailey (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Leonard Lee Bailey, Lead paragraph [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Leonard Lee Bailey, Lead paragraph [in-group]
recognized for transplantation and all types of pediatric and infant-open heart surgeries
Henry Heimlich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Henry Heimlich, Lead, field of workQuote, Notable Specialists: Henry Heimlich, Lead, field of work
was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher
Zbigniew Religa (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Zbigniew Religa, LeadQuote, Notable Specialists: Zbigniew Religa, Lead
was a Polish cardiac surgeon and politician
Nikolai Amosov (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Nikolai Amosov, LeadQuote, Notable Specialists: Nikolai Amosov, Lead
heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author
Adrian Kantrowitz (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adrian Kantrowitz, LeadQuote, Notable Specialists: Adrian Kantrowitz, Lead
was an American cardiac surgeon
Devi Shetty (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Devi Shetty, Opening summary [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Devi Shetty, Opening summary [in-group]
Indian cardiac surgeon
C. Walton Lillehei (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: C. Walton Lillehei, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: C. Walton Lillehei, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [specialist-in]
numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery
Chiaki Mukai (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Chiaki Mukai, Early life and education, board certificationQuote, Notable Specialists: Chiaki Mukai, Early life and education, board certification
board certified as a cardiovascular surgeon, Japan Surgical Society, 1989
Christian Cabrol (source article)
Notable Specialists: Christian Cabrol, Lead section [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Christian Cabrol, Lead section [in-group]
best known for performing Europe's first heart transplant at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1968
Norman Barrett (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Norman Barrett, Lead and biography [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Norman Barrett, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Australian-born English thoracic surgeon
Maurice Neligan (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Maurice Neligan, Lead, first sentenceQuote, Notable Specialists: Maurice Neligan, Lead, first sentence
was an Irish heart surgeon, activist
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Article text [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Article text [specialist-in]
was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker
Ludwig Rehn (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ludwig Rehn, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Ludwig Rehn, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
first surgeon to perform a successful heart surgery
Adib Jatene (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adib Jatene, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Adib Jatene, Lead [specialist-in]
university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon
Giancarlo Rastelli (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Giancarlo Rastelli, Lead sentence [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Giancarlo Rastelli, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
was an Italian-born cardiac surgeon who worked for the University of Parma and the Mayo Clinic
Dwight Harken (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Dwight Harken, Lead paragraphQuote, Notable Specialists: Dwight Harken, Lead paragraph
He was an innovator in heart surgery
Rafael Espada (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Rafael Espada, Lead [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Rafael Espada, Lead [in-group]
is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and politician
Clarence Crafoord (source article)
Notable Specialists: Clarence Crafoord, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Clarence Crafoord, Lead [specialist-in]
Crafoord was professor of thoracic surgery at Karolinska Institute from 1948 to 1966.
Gilles Dreyfus (source article)
Notable Specialists: Gilles Dreyfus, Lead and biography [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Gilles Dreyfus, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Professor of cardio-thoracic surgery at Imperial College School of Medicine
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