Quijano-Pitman F
Arch Inst Cardiol Mex. 1979 Sep-Oct;49(5):984-1002.
The history of development of Cardiac Surgery is made, analizing the factors influencing this evolution, such as the anatomic and physiological factors of cardiopathies as the fundamental factor of the fast development of this discipline. Reference is made over the influences exerted by Cardiac Surgery on the development on other medical disciplines such as the Intensive Care Units, Pacemakers, the Fundamentals of Congenital Heart Diseases and the studies over shock etc., etc., etc. The present status of Cardiac Surgery is exposed first by analysis of the global Surgical Results of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología since 1945 up to date and finally the present results since 1971 to 1979 are shown.
通过分析影响心脏外科发展的因素，如心脏病的解剖和生理因素，这些是该学科快速发展的基本因素，从而构成了心脏外科的发展历史。文中提到了心脏外科对其他医学学科发展的影响，如重症监护病房、心脏起搏器、先天性心脏病基础以及休克研究等。首先通过分析国立心脏病研究所自1945年至今的全球手术结果来阐述心脏外科的现状，最后展示了1971年至1979年的当前结果。
