First Heart Surgery
Posted By Adam Pick On October 29, 2007 @ 9:50 pm In Heart Valve Surgery | No Comments
Blog Topics: Cardiac Surgery History; First Heart Surgery; Google; Dr. Ludwig Rehn
Have you ever wondered when the first heart surgery was performed?
Hmmmmm….
Well, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to learn more about cardiac surgery history so I Google’d the term, “first heart surgery”. Guess what? I immediately found a reference to the first heart surgery. Here is what Wikipedia had to say about the first heart surgery:
“The first heart surgery on the heart itself, performed without any [1] heart surgery complications, was by Dr. Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt, Germany, who repaired a stab wound to the right ventricle on September 7, 1896.”
Pretty amazing to think that the first heart surgery happened over 100 years ago.
As I can attest, following my [2] double heart valve replacement surgery, patients today are blessed to have pioneers like Dr. Ludwing Rehn of Germany as part of our cardiac surgery history.
To learn more, visit our [3] Heart Valve Surgery Learning Center.
Keep on tickin,
Adam
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hat-you-should-know/
[2] double heart valve replacement surgery: http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2007/08/29/double-valve-replacement-the-ross-p
rocedure/
[3] Heart Valve Surgery Learning Center: http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-valve-help-learning-information.php
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