Castañeda Aldo
Department of Pediatrics, Unidad de Cirugia Cardiovascular de Guatemala, Guatemala.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Jun;79(6):S2217-20. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.031.
Pediatric cardiac surgery began with Dr Gross's first successful ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus on August 8, 1938, at the Children's Hospital in Boston. The beginnings of open-heart surgery for repair of congenital malformations, aside from Gibbon's first successful closure in Philadelphia of an atrial septal defect using an artificial heart-lung machine, can be traced to members of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota during the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. This story will be told, and other advances will be discussed, some of which also carry the imprint of the Minnesota surgical training program, with its heavy emphasis on research.
小儿心脏外科始于1938年8月8日格罗斯医生在波士顿儿童医院首次成功结扎动脉导管未闭。除了吉本在费城首次使用人工心肺机成功闭合房间隔缺损外，20世纪五六十年代，先天性畸形修复的心脏直视手术的开端可追溯到明尼苏达大学外科系的成员。这个故事将会被讲述，其他进展也会被讨论，其中一些也带有明尼苏达外科培训项目的印记，该项目非常重视研究。
