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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts ...

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 ...