Charles Philamore Bailey (September 8,1910 –August 18,1993) was an American cardiac surgeon. [1] His methods were the focus of a 1957 Time magazine article. [2] Born in Wanamassa,a suburb of Asbury Park,New Jersey,he was a graduate of Rutgers University,Hahnemann Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. Bailey performed commisurotomy in at least three patients and death was the outcome. On June 10,1948 Bailey operated on a 30 year old man at Philadelphia General Hospital at eight in the morning and the patient died before the mitral valve was open. The same day at 2 pm at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia,Bailey operated on Claire Ward. The patient was a 24-year-old female with severe mitral stenosis. She lived for 38 years after the surgery. Bailey published a textbook of cardiac surgery in 1955. He was often in competition with Dwight Harken of Harvard. Both of them died in August 1993. [3]
An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation surgery,but research is ongoing to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant is unavailable or not viable. As of December 2023,there are two commercially available full artificial heart devices;in both cases,they are for temporary use,of less than a year,for total heart failure patients awaiting a human heart to be transplanted into their bodies.
Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity —generally treatment of conditions of the heart,lungs,and other pleural or mediastinal structures.
Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist Charles Dotter.
Cardiac surgery,or cardiovascular surgery,is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease;to correct congenital heart disease;or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes,including endocarditis,rheumatic heart disease,and atherosclerosis. It also includes heart transplantation.
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) (French:Institut de cardiologie de l'Universitéd'Ottawa ) is Canada's largest cardiovascular health centre. It is located in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. It began as a department in The Ottawa Hospital,and since has evolved into Canada's only complete cardiac centre,encompassing prevention,diagnosis,treatment,rehabilitation,research,and education.
Clarence Walton Lillehei,was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery,as well as numerous techniques,equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery.
Daniel Hale Williams was an American surgeon and hospital founder. An African American,he founded Provident Hospital in 1891,which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans. He is known for having completed the first successful heart surgery.
Mitral valve repair is a cardiac surgery procedure performed by cardiac surgeons to treat stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage) of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the "inflow valve" for the left side of the heart. Blood flows from the lungs,where it picks up oxygen,through the pulmonary veins,to the left atrium of the heart. After the left atrium fills with blood,the mitral valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium into the heart's main pumping chamber called the left ventricle. It then closes to keep blood from leaking back into the left atrium or lungs when the ventricle contracts (squeezes) to push blood out to the body. It has two flaps,or leaflets,known as cusps.
Russell Claude Brock,Baron Brock was a leading British chest and heart surgeon and one of the pioneers of modern open-heart surgery. His achievements were recognised by a knighthood in 1954,a life peerage in 1965,and a host of other awards.
Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn,New York on December 6,1967. The infant lived for only six hours. At a press conference afterwards,Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure.
Ramakanta Panda, MCh,is the chief consultant for cardiovascular thoracic surgery and the group CEO of the Asian Heart Institute,a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals,at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai,India. In 2002,he set up the Asian Heart Institute in India. Panda has performed about 28,000 successful cardiac surgeries as of 2022,including over 1,900 redo bypass surgeries. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 by the Government of India. Known as "the surgeon with the safest hands" Panda is also one of the world's safest heart surgeons.
St. Francis Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital located in Columbus,Georgia,United States,and is accredited by the Joint Commission.
Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center is a hospital with 180 private patient rooms and serves patients in Montgomery,Prince George's,and surrounding counties.
Peter Allen was a Canadian surgeon who played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques. Along with Dr. Philip Ashmore,Dr. W.G. (Bill) Trapp and Dr. Ross Robertson,he performed the first Open Heart Surgery in British Columbia on 29 October 1957 at Vancouver General Hospital,by closing an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) in 9 year old John Evans,using Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB).
Dr R Ravi Kumar is an Indian heart surgeon,and a pioneer in robot-assisted heart surgery.
Nina Starr Braunwald was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher who was among the first women to perform open-heart surgery. She was also the first woman to be certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery,and the first to be elected to the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. In 1960,at the age of 32,she led the operative team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) that implanted the first successful artificial mitral human heart valve replacement,which she had designed and fabricated.
Nagarur Gopinath was an Indian surgeon and one of the pioneers of cardiothoracic surgery in India. He is credited with the first successful performance of open heart surgery in India which he performed in 1962. He served as the honorary surgeon to two Presidents of India and was a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 1974 and Dr. B. C. Roy Award,the highest Indian medical award in 1978 from the Government of India.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health,a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital for Thomas Jefferson University. With 937 licensed beds and 63 operating rooms,it is the second-largest hospital in Pennsylvania as of 2018.
Horace Gilbert Smithy Jr. was an American cardiac surgeon who in 1948 performed the first successful mitral valve repair since the 1920s. Smithy's work was complicated because it predated heart-lung machines or open heart surgery. Though his procedure did not become a definitive treatment for valvular heart disease,he introduced the technique of injecting novocaine into the heart to avoid arrhythmias during surgery,and he showed that it was feasible to access and operate on the heart's valves.
Green Lane Hospital in Auckland,New Zealand was a hospital with a national and international reputation for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery,led by Douglas Robb and Brian Barratt-Boyes. The original hospital,the Costley Home for the Aged Poor,opened in 1890. It was renamed the Auckland Infirmary in 1924 and then Green Lane Hospital in 1942 when it became a general hospital. The hospital's name was sometimes misspelt as Greenlane Hospital. In 2003 it became the Greenlane Clinical Centre when many of the services were moved to Auckland City Hospital.
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