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Dwight Harken was an American cardiac surgeon known for advances made during and after the Second World War. While treating wounded soldiers, he developed methods for removing bullets and shrapnel from the heart and major blood vessels without causing fatal injury, demonstrating that direct cardiac...
Charles P. Bailey was an American cardiac surgeon associated with the early surgical treatment of mitral valve disease. In 1948 he performed a successful closed mitral commissurotomy, an operation that separates fused portions of the mitral valve without using open-heart circulation. His work helped...
Elliott Cutler was an American surgeon associated with Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1923, he performed an early operation for mitral stenosis using a device designed to remove part of the narrowed valve, an intervention often identified as the first successful mitral valve operation. His...
Henry Souttar was a British surgeon who performed an early operation for mitral stenosis at the London Hospital in 1925. Working through an incision in the left atrial appendage, he used a finger to widen the narrowed mitral valve, an approach now recognized as an early closed mitral valvotomy. Alth...
