Contents Acknowledgments Preface Significant Events in the Development of Cardiac Surgery A Short History of Cardiac Surgery Stab Wounds of the Heart Alexis Carrel and Charles Guthrie Trendelenburg and Pulmonary Embolectomy Mitral Stenosis in the 1920s Patent Ductus Arteriosus Coarctation of the Aorta Tetralogy of Fallot and the Blue Baby Operation World War II Post-World War II Developments (Dwight Harken and Charles Bailey) Development of the Heart-Lung Machine Lillehei and Cross Circulation DeWall and a Practical Heart-Lung Machine The Starr-Edwards Valve Coronary Artery Surgery Cardiac Transplantation Total Artificial Heart Pioneer Cardiac Surgeons The Early Years William P. Longmire Viking O. Björk C. Walton Lillehei Richard A. DeWall William H. Muller Harris B. Shumacker Jr. Geoffrey Wooler Michael E.

DeBakey C. Rollins Hanlon Frank C. Spencer Henry T. Bahnson Congenital Heart Surgery Judson G. Randolph Anthony R. C. Dobell Paul A. Ebert Harvey W.

Bender Denton A. Cooley J. Alex Haller Jr. Valvular Heart Surgery Albert Starr Donald N. Ross George J. Magovern Robert B. Wallace Francis Robicsek Alain F. Carpentier Vincent L.

Gott Alden H. Harken and Dwight E. Harken Coronary Artery Surgery René G. Favaloro George E. Green W. Dudley Johnson John L. Ochsner Floyd D. Loop Thomas J.

Fogarty Transplant-Artificial Heart Norman E. Shumway Christiaan Barnard James D. Hardy Sir Terence English William C. DeVries Arrhythmia Surgery Will C. Sealy James R. Jude.