In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had a 50 percent mortality rate. Today it is less than 1 percent. Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via STAT News ...

BACKGROUND: Inflammation suppresses right ventricular (RV) function in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In particular, we showed GP130 (glycoprotein-130) signaling promotes pathological ...

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In 1965, she married William M. Scovell and transferred to the University of Minnesota University Hospital in Minneapolis as a cardiothoracic surgery nurse assisting Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered ...

In 1965, she married William M. Scovell and transferred to the University of Minnesota University Hospital in Minneapolis as a cardiothoracic surgery nurse assisting Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered ...

Better, said Dr. Lillehei, to attach one electrode to the heart at the time of operation, lead the wire out through the chest incision (the second electrode can still be placed just under the skin ...

“Dr. Lillehei was a cardiac doctor at the University, and I have a background in caring for cardiac surgical patients,” Disch said. “I want to follow the principles that Lillehei put into practice.

Lillehei would use cross-circulation 45 times; 28 of the patients survived. "A couple of those patients are still alive today," Iaizzo said. But cross-circulation had limits, Kirklin said.

Lillehei would use cross-circulation 45 times; 28 of the patients survived. "A couple of those patients are still alive today," Iaizzo said. But cross-circulation had limits, Kirklin said.

Lillehei would use cross-circulation 45 times; 28 of the patients survived. "A couple of those patients are still alive today," Iaizzo said. But cross-circulation had limits, Kirklin said.