And then there were the pacing wires — thin wires attached directly to the heart and brought out through my chest, a practice invented in the 1950s by Dr. Walt Lillehei, an American pioneer of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.