I N 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.

The key to this progress is the heart-lung machine, which makes it possible to by-pass the heart for some hours... February 1, 1960 — C. Walton Lillehei and Leonard Engel Advertisement ...

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… ...

On September 2, 1952, Varco with Lewis and Dr C Walton Lillehei saved the life of a five-year-old girl with a heart murmur by operating on a beating human heart for the first time. After ...

Upon his request, Bakken built a transistorized pacemaker. Lillehei tested it first in a dog and, the next day, implanted it in a patient.

Description (Brief) This artificial heart valve was developed by engineer Robert Kaster (born 1933 ) and Dr. C. Walton Lillehei (1918-1999). Under Lellehei’s direction, Kaster made changes to an ...

by Mickie Barg Published September 18, 2000 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.

Description Cross circulation SigmaMotor finger pump, model TMI, with a Leland motor. Finger pumps of this sort were used in several cutting-edge medical procedures. Dr. C. Walton Lillehei used one in ...

If Walton Lillehei was a gunslinger in the operating theater, he led a gunslinger's life outside it as well. When Lillehei was lucky, his gold jewelry, Jaguar XKE and late nights in jazz dives did ...