Abstract
Sixty years ago, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, an ambitious group of pioneers, led by Dr John W. Kirklin and supported by a multidisciplinary team of physicians and technicians embarked on a planned series of surgical cases using a heart-lung machine to allow direct visualization of the inside of the opened human heart to repair otherwise fatal congenital intracardiac defects. Their success sparked the beginning of a new era of open-heart surgery. In this historical article, we discuss the contributions of a few key figures of this revolution and also share the story of the first successful cardiac surgery operation using cardiopulmonary bypass performed at Mayo Clinic.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 666-673 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 3 2016 |
Keywords
- Kirklin
- Mayo Clinic
- Mayo heart-lung machine
- cardiac surgery
- history
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine