Types of cardiothoracic surgery6/10/2023 Pulmonary stenosis and successfully divided the stenosed pulmonary In 1947, Thomas Sellors operated on a Tetralogy of Fallot patient with 1944: Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas performed theįirst successful palliative paediatric cardiac operation, in a one-year-old 1925: Henry Souttar operated successfully on a young woman with mitral 1920: Cutlet and Beck : Mitral Valvotomy. 1896: Ludwig Rehn : Suture cardiac stab. Daniel Hale Williams of Chicago, America in 1893. The first successful surgery(Open heart) on the heart was performed byĭr. MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY depending on the Surgical operations performed on the heart under to correct life. CARDIAC SURGERY, also called HEART SURGERY, involves While the term does refer to the chest as a whole, in medicine it is most Pertaining to the heart, and "thorac" which is Latin for chest. The term CARDIOTHORACIC means "pertaining to the heart andĬhest." The term comes from the Greek word "kardiakos" which means
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