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Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infants and children. At Boston Children's Hospital, he promoted primary repair of complex defects during the neonatal period instead of relying exclusively on staged palliative operat...
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Neonatal cardiac repair pioneer with major Boston Children's legacy; high acclaim in congenital surgery.
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Brian Barratt-Boyes (1924-2006) was a New Zealand cardiac surgeon who helped establish open-heart surgery at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland. He performed early valve replacements using human aortic homografts and developed techniques employing profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest for repairi...
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Deep hypothermia and infant cardiac surgery advances earned strong international respect.
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