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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:1243-1244
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Honored guest's address

A milestone in cardiovascular surgery

Denton A. Cooley, MDa,*

a Texas Heart Institute/St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Tex, USA

Received for publication April 30, 2003; accepted for publication June 4, 2003.

* Address for reprints: Denton A. Cooley, MD, Texas Heart Institute, PO Box 20345, Houston, TX 77225-0345, USA
dcooley@heart.thi.tmc.edu

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On May 6, 1953, 50 years ago, Dr John H. Gibbon, Jr, at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, successfully repaired an atrial septal defect in an 18-year-old patient by using a mechanical heart-lung apparatus that he and his colleagues had spent 20 years developing. This event fulfilled a dream of Gibbon (Figure 1), who, as a fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, had witnessed the futility of a pulmonary embolectomy attempted by Dr Edward Churchill in 1932. This event reinforced Gibbon's interest in extracorporeal circulation, because he recognized that a temporary means to substitute for cardiac and pulmonary function would permit such a procedure to be performed with better expectation of success.


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