History of Cardiac Surgery
1896
Ludwig Rehn successfully stitched a wound in the heart..
1912
Ludwig Rehn und Ferdinand Sauerbruch performed the first successful pericardectomy for a constricting pericarditis..
1924
Martin Kirschner performed the first successful pulmonary embolectomy using the technique developed in 1907 by Friedrich Trendelenburg.
1923/25
Elliott Culter und Samuel Levine (cardiologist) performed in 1923 transventricular and Souttar in 1925 Soutar transatrial (auricle) mitral valve valvotomy .
1929
First heart catheterization a self experiment by Werner Forssmann.
1931
Ferdinand Sauerbruch successfully operated on a right ventricular aneurysm..
1938
Emil Frey performed the first surgical ligation of a patent Ductus arteriosus Botalli.
1944
Clarence Crafoord performed the first successful repair of aortic coarctation by resection and end to end anastomosis.
1944
Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig (cardiologist) performed the first left Art. subclavia to Art. pulmonalis shunt to improve the oxygen saturation in a child with tetralogy of Fallot.
1948
Thomas Sellors and Russell Brock independently performed transventricular pulmonary valvotomy for congenital pulmonary stenosis.
1948
Robert Gross und Tyge Sondergaard performed atrial septal defect (closed technique).
1950
Wilfred Bigelow developed a technique for cerebral protection during circulatory arrest.
1952/53
John Lewis performed the first open congenital heart surgery in hypothermia.
1953
John Gibbon developed a heart lung machine for open heart closure of atrial septal defect.
1954
Äke Senning und Clarence Crafoord.resected atrial myxoma in extracorporal circulation .
1954
Walton Lillehei, father of open heart surgery, used the Cross-Circulation technique to correct tetralogy of Fallot-Tetralogy in a child.The circulation of the parent was connected to that of the child to maintain the circulation when the child’s heart was arrested during the open heart operation.
1958
Äke Senning implanted the first heart pace maker.
1960
Dwight Harken performed the first aortic valve replacement with a cage ball prosthesis.
1961
Albert Starr performed the first mitral valve replacement with a cage ball prosthesis (Starr-Edwards Valve).
1962
Frank Mason Sones performed the first selective coronary angiography during a heart catheterization..
1963
Hans Borst performed aortic arch operation in hypothermia and circulatory arrest.
1967
Rene Favalaro performed coronary artery revascularisation with a coronary artery vein graft (CABG) and Vasilii Kolessov with Art. mammaria.
graft.
1967
Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first intra aortic balloon pump (IABP) counterpulsation for treating patients in cardiogenic shock.
1967
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human orthotopic heart transplantation.
1977
Andreas Gruentzig performed the first coronary balloon angioplasty.
1981
Bruce Reitz performed the first heart lung transplantation.