#ThrowbackThursday 1965: Ten Years Since First Open Heart Operation

This article first appeared March 26, 1965 in the publication Mayovox. Development of Heart-Lung Bypass Made It Possible Ten years ago, on March 22, 1955, Dr. John Kirkin, working at Methodist Hospital, operated on a five year old girl who had a ventricular septal defect — a hole in the wall separating the two chambers [...]
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