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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

LEWIS, Floyd John (1916 – 1993)

1916 – 1993

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1953

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Closure of atrial septal defects with the aid of hypothermia; experimental accomplishments and the report of one successful case.

LEWIS, Floyd John (1916 – 1993) TAUFIC, Mansur (1915 – 2005)

Lewis performed the first successful open heart operation, closing an atrial septal defect in a 5-year-old girl on September 2, 1952. The procedure took 5.5 minutes. For the next three years Lewis and colleagues opera…