swap_horiz Russell Brock Alternatives

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René Favaloro

Rene Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon known for advancing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clini...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.6 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.5 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

John Kirklin was an American cardiac surgeon who helped establish reliable open-heart surgery using mechanical cardiopul...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.5 Brilliant

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Andreas Grüntzig

Andreas Gruntzig was a German-born physician who worked in Switzerland and helped found modern interventional cardiology...

Swiss Pioneer Cardiac Angioplasty

9.2 Excellent

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Albert Starr

Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who worked with engineer Lowell Edwards to develop the Starr-Edwards prosthe...

American Pioneer Cardiac Valve

9.1 Excellent

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Roy Calne

Roy Calne was a British surgeon and researcher whose work helped establish clinical organ transplantation. Based at Camb...

Pioneer British Immunosuppression Transplant

9.1 Excellent

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Francis Fontan

Francis Fontan was a French cardiac surgeon who developed an operation for patients born with a single effective pumping...

French Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.1 Excellent

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Aldo Castañeda

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infa...

Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric Guatemalan American

9.1 Excellent

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Victor Horsley

Victor Horsley was a prominent British surgeon whose work significantly advanced the field of neurosurgery. He is noted...

Pioneer Historical British Neurosurgery

9.0 Excellent

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Hugh Owen Thomas

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh surgeon whose work helped establish modern orthopedics in Britain. He developed...

Orthopedic 19TH Century Pioneer British

9.0 Excellent

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Donald Ross

Donald Ross (1922-2014) was a South African-born British cardiac surgeon known for innovations in heart-valve surgery. I...

Pioneer Cardiac British Valve

8.8 Great

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Clarence Crafoord

Clarence Crafoord (1899-1984) was a Swedish surgeon who contributed to the emergence of cardiac and thoracic surgery. In...

Pioneer Cardiac Swedish Coarctation

8.8 Great

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Åke Senning

Åke Senning (1915-2000) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon whose work addressed both abnormal heart rhythms and congenital he...

Pioneer Cardiac Pacemaker Swedish

8.8 Great

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Brian Barratt-Boyes

Brian Barratt-Boyes (1924-2006) was a New Zealand cardiac surgeon who helped establish open-heart surgery at Green Lane...

New Zealand Pioneer Cardiac Valve

8.8 Great

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Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established select...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.8 Great

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Robert Jones

Sir Robert Jones was a Welsh orthopedic surgeon whose work helped establish orthopedics as a distinct surgical specialty...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Rehabilitation

8.7 Great

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Michel Mirowski

Michel Mirowski (1924-1990) was a Polish-born physician who helped develop the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, a...

Pioneer Cardiac Defibrillator Polish American

8.7 Great

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Henry Souttar

Henry Souttar was a British surgeon who performed an early operation for mitral stenosis at the London Hospital in 1925....

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.9 Good

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John Wallwork

John Wallwork is a British cardiothoracic surgeon closely associated with Papworth Hospital and the development of heart...

Pioneer Cardiac British Transplant

7.8 Good

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Laurence O'Shaughnessy

Laurence O'Shaughnessy was a British surgeon whose experimental work explored ways to improve the blood supply to heart...

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.6 Good