In today’s world of sophisticated medical technology, it is easy to forget that at one time in history heart disease meant certain death. Dr. C. Walton Lillehei pioneered a number of medical ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This artificial heart valve was ...

After an intensive search, the University’s School of Nursing named professor Joanne Disch to a newly created position in honor of Katherine R. and C. Walton Lillehei. Disch is now the Lillehei ...

In the past five years surgeons have made large strides in correcting cardiac defect and damage. The key to this progress is the heart-lung machine, which makes it possible to by-pass the heart for ...

"G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first ...

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 wrong.

After the heart has been opened to close holes between its chambers, with aid from a heart-lung machine, it can be helped to settle down to a steady, normal rhythm by leaving anelectrode attached to ...