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Cardiothoracic Surgery

Surgical Specialties
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.

Facts
Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own account
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. 2
Classification
Type/Classification
Surgical Specialty 1
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Associated With

Heart Valve Repair, Treatments

Cardiothoracic surgery practice

Heart Valve Replacement, Treatments

Cardiothoracic surgery practice

Total Artificial Heart, Treatments

Cardiothoracic surgery practice

Notable Specialists

Source Peter Allen (physician) (Wikipedia)
Source Peter Amollo Odhiambo (Wikipedia)
Source Pierre Grondin (Wikipedia)
Rafael Espada, Healers
Source Rafael Espada (Wikipedia)
Source Robert S. Poston (source article)
Source Russell M. Nelson (source article)
Source S. W. Harrington (source article)
Shanti Gandhi, Healers
Source Shanti Gandhi (Wikipedia)
Source Thomas Thomas (surgeon) (source article)
Source Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (Wikipedia)
Source William S. Pierce (Wikipedia)
Source Zbigniew Religa (Wikipedia)

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Cardiothoracic surgery practice

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification table
Quote, Classification table
Surgical specialties focus on manually operative and instrumental techniques to treat disease.
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2. Cardiac Surgery (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead 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.
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Ferdinand Sauerbruch (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Biography section, thorax medicine
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Biography section, thorax medicine
allowed heart and lung operations to take place at greatly reduced risk
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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
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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
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Henry Heimlich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Henry Heimlich, Lead, field of work
Quote, Notable Specialists: Henry Heimlich, Lead, field of work
was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher
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Zbigniew Religa (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Zbigniew Religa, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Zbigniew Religa, Lead
was a Polish cardiac surgeon and politician
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Nikolai Amosov (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Nikolai Amosov, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Nikolai Amosov, Lead
heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author
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Adrian Kantrowitz (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adrian Kantrowitz, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Adrian Kantrowitz, Lead
was an American cardiac surgeon
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Devi Shetty (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Devi Shetty, Opening summary [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Devi Shetty, Opening summary [in-group]
Indian cardiac surgeon
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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
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Chiaki Mukai (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Chiaki Mukai, Early life and education, board certification
Quote, Notable Specialists: Chiaki Mukai, Early life and education, board certification
board certified as a cardiovascular surgeon, Japan Surgical Society, 1989
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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
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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
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Maurice Neligan (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Maurice Neligan, Lead, first sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Maurice Neligan, Lead, first sentence
was an Irish heart surgeon, activist
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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
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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
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Adib Jatene (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adib Jatene, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Adib Jatene, Lead [specialist-in]
university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon
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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
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Dwight Harken (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Dwight Harken, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Dwight Harken, Lead paragraph
He was an innovator in heart surgery
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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
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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.
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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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David H. Adams (source article)
Notable Specialists: David H. Adams, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: David H. Adams, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Russell M. Nelson (source article)
Notable Specialists: Russell M. Nelson, Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Russell M. Nelson, Article text
He spent the next twenty-nine years working in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
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Robert S. Poston (source article)
Notable Specialists: Robert S. Poston, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Robert S. Poston, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
nationally recognized for his work in robot-assisted cardiothoracic surgery
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Edward Delos Churchill (source article)
Notable Specialists: Edward Delos Churchill, Article body [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edward Delos Churchill, Article body [specialist-in]
known for his work in thoracic surgery
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Axel Haverich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Axel Haverich, Biography
Quote, Notable Specialists: Axel Haverich, Biography
medical director of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery
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Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky (source article)
Notable Specialists: Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky, Lead paragraph, profession [specialist-in 2]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky, Lead paragraph, profession [specialist-in 2]
first conducted a cardiac surgery under the local anesthesia
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Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng (source article)
Notable Specialists: Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Early life and education
Quote, Notable Specialists: Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Early life and education
specialised in cardiothoracic surgery at Hannover Medical School
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Charles A. Hufnagel (source article)
Notable Specialists: Charles A. Hufnagel, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Charles A. Hufnagel, Lead sentence [in-group]
was an American surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve in the early 1950s
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Shanti Gandhi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Shanti Gandhi, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Shanti Gandhi, Lead sentence [in-group]
Indian-born American cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon
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Edward Bove (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Edward Bove, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edward Bove, Lead sentence [in-group]
is an American pediatric cardiac surgeon
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Hugh Bentall (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hugh Bentall, Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hugh Bentall, Article text [specialist-in]
Bentall was Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital from 1955 to 1985.
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Farrokh Saidi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Farrokh Saidi, Medical education
Quote, Notable Specialists: Farrokh Saidi, Medical education
completed his residency and a fellowship in Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
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Francisco Romero (surgeon) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Francisco Romero (surgeon), Lead, first sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Francisco Romero (surgeon), Lead, first sentence
became the first successful heart surgeon, on record
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Lawrence H. Cohn (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Lawrence H. Cohn, Lead sentence, occupation
Quote, Notable Specialists: Lawrence H. Cohn, Lead sentence, occupation
American pioneering cardiac surgeon
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Javad Heyat (source article)
Notable Specialists: Javad Heyat, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Javad Heyat, Lead
He performed the first open heart surgery in Iran
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Douglas Robb (surgeon) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Douglas Robb (surgeon), Wikipedia, Personal life
Quote, Notable Specialists: Douglas Robb (surgeon), Wikipedia, Personal life
became a foremost thoracic surgeon, and a leader in medical education and research.
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Peter Amollo Odhiambo (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Peter Amollo Odhiambo, Wikipedia article, lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Peter Amollo Odhiambo, Wikipedia article, lead [specialist-in]
Kenya's first cardiothoracic surgeon
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Harry Windsor (surgeon) (source article)
Notable Specialists: Harry Windsor (surgeon), After World War II [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Harry Windsor (surgeon), After World War II [specialist-in]
Windsor's wartime experiences, turned him towards the specialty of thoracic surgery.
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Forest Dewey Dodrill (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Forest Dewey Dodrill, Biography
Quote, Notable Specialists: Forest Dewey Dodrill, Biography
He undertook a thoracic surgical residency at the University of Michigan
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Duke Cameron (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Duke Cameron, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Duke Cameron, Lead sentence
Duke E. Cameron is an American cardiac surgeon.
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Hermes Grillo (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hermes Grillo, Lead section [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hermes Grillo, Lead section [specialist-in]
world-famous thoracic surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
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Gerald M. Lawrie (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Gerald M. Lawrie, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Gerald M. Lawrie, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
completed his residency training in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Sydney
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William S. Pierce (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: William S. Pierce, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: William S. Pierce, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and chemical engineer
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S. W. Harrington (source article)
Notable Specialists: S. W. Harrington, Source article
Quote, Notable Specialists: S. W. Harrington, Source article
Harrington changed his subspeciality from gastrointestinal and urologic surgery to thoracic and breast surgery.
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Peter Allen (physician) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Peter Allen (physician), Lead paragraph, profession
Quote, Notable Specialists: Peter Allen (physician), Lead paragraph, profession
played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques
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G. Michael Deeb (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: G. Michael Deeb, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: G. Michael Deeb, Lead
is a Lebanese-American cardiothoracic surgeon
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Maurice Mazel (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Maurice Mazel, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Maurice Mazel, Lead
was a prominent Chicago heart surgeon who founded Edgewater Hospital
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Thomas Thomas (surgeon) (source article)
Notable Specialists: Thomas Thomas (surgeon), Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Thomas Thomas (surgeon), Lead sentence [in-group]
the first cardio-thoracic surgeon of Indian citizenship
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Erik Fosse (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Erik Fosse, Medical career
Quote, Notable Specialists: Erik Fosse, Medical career
Fosse is a specialist of general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery.
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Pierre Grondin (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Pierre Grondin, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Pierre Grondin, Lead [specialist-in]
Pierre Grondin (August 18, 1925, January 17, 2006), was a Canadian cardiac surgeon known for his contributions to heart transplantation and cardiac surgery.
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Lan Xichun (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Lan Xichun, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Lan Xichun, Lead and career text [specialist-in]
was a surgeon of general surgery and cardio-thoracic surgery
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Christian-Friedrich Vahl (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Christian-Friedrich Vahl, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Christian-Friedrich Vahl, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
He is director of the Clinic for Heart, Thorax and Vascular surgery at the University of Mainz.
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James Hardy (surgeon) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: James Hardy (surgeon), Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: James Hardy (surgeon), Lead [in-group]
performed the world's first lung transplant into John Russell
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