1944 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); BAUER, Donald deF.; ASTBURY, Eppie C.

Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.

Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.

GMN 11859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14063

1951 DENNIS, Clarence (1909 – 2005); VARCO, Richard Lynn (1913 – 2004); NELSON, Russell Marion (1924 – ); ET AL

Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.

Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…

GMN 12229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14442

1953 LEWIS, Floyd John (1916 – 1993); TAUFIC, Mansur (1915 – 2005)

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

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…

GMN 11678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13879

1964 MUSTARD, William Thornton (1914 – 1987)

Successful two-stage correction of transposition of the great vessels.

The Mustard cardiovascular procedure, which "allows total correction of transposition of the great vessels. The procedure employs a baffle to redirect caval blood flow to the left atrium which then pumps blood to the …

GMN 11694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13895

1969 RASTELLI, Giancarlo (1934 – 1970)

A new approach to “anatomic” repair of transposition of the great arteries.

The Rastelli procedure. “Intraventricular rerouting of left ventricular output through the ventricular septal defect to the aorta and establishing of a new right ventricular outflow through the ventriculotomy and an e…

GMN 3047.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3642