Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. When Lillehei performed the first open ...

But that era prioritized speed. One of the Minnesota physicians, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, and colleagues worked out a technique called cross-circulation.

Dr. Lillehei, who died last year, comes back to life in King of Hearts, The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery.

Lillehei, a pioneer who created many innovative open-heart surgery techniques during the 1950s, died Monday of cancer in St. Paul, Minn. He was 80. Lillehei was a surgery professor at the Universit… ...

February 3, 1963 Dr. Lillehei (left) explores the inside of the heart with a gloved finger to help determine his next step. He wears a headlight to keep his operating field in bright light A ...

A University graduate recently returned to the Medical School to assume a high-ranking position within the department. Dr. Daniel J. Garry is the new director of the Lillehei Heart Institute and ...

Under Lellehei’s direction, Kaster made changes to an earlier design developed by Dr. Antonio Cruz. The Lillehei-Kaster valve, clinically introduced in 1969, is a free-floating tilting disk heart ...

The old man is me and Dr. Lillehei attended the University of Minnesota, as I did, but he did not major in English as I did nor did he write surreal poetry and doomsday fiction that took a stab at ...

Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. When Lillehei performed the first open ...

The creation of heart-lung bypass was clearly "one of the major milestones of modern medicine," said Dr. James K. Kirklin, the former director of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of ...