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 ...

Dr. Walt Lillehei in a 1997 photo, only two years before his death at age 80. As a young man, he had been diagnosed with neck cancer and given a slim chance of survival.

Funeral services for Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a renowned University faculty member touted by many as “the father of open-heart surgery,” will be held at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis this morning.

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

On September 2, 1952, two University of Minnesota surgeons, Dr. Walton Lillehei and Dr. John Lewis, attempted the first open heart surgery on a five-year-old girl who had been born with a hole in ...

IN APRIL 1954 C. WALTON LILLEHEI opened the chest of 4-year-old Pamela Schmidt, cut into her heart and, with seven silk stitches, sewed up a hole the size of a half-dollar. Then something went ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...