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FIRST OPERATION ON OPEN HEART IN HYPOTHERMIA PERFORMED IN CROATIA IN 1957
MIROSLAV HROMADKO
orcid.org/0000-0001-9637-4792
; Academy of Medical Sciences of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
STELLA FATOVIĆ-FERENČIĆ
; Academy of Medical Sciences of Croatia and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for History and Philosophy of Sciences, Department for History of Medical Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On October 25, 1957, the fi rst open heart surgery in hypothermia was performed in Zagreb, at the Department of Surgery, Dr. Ozren Novosel University Hospital (now Merkur University Hospital), in a female patient with pulmonary valve stenosis under the control of the eye and with interruption of venous circulation. It was the fi rst such operation performed in hypothermia not only in Croatia, but probably in the territory of former Yugoslavia.
Keywords
Induced hypothermia – history; methods; pulmonary valve stenosis – history; surgery; cardiac surgery procedures – history; methods; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
142207
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Publication date:
22.7.2015.
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