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René Favaloro

Rene Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon known for advancing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clini...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.6 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.5 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

John Kirklin was an American cardiac surgeon who helped establish reliable open-heart surgery using mechanical cardiopul...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.5 Brilliant

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Albert Starr

Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who worked with engineer Lowell Edwards to develop the Starr-Edwards prosthe...

American Pioneer Cardiac Valve

9.1 Excellent

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Francis Fontan

Francis Fontan was a French cardiac surgeon who developed an operation for patients born with a single effective pumping...

French Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.1 Excellent

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Aldo Castañeda

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infa...

Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric Guatemalan American

9.1 Excellent

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Donald Ross

Donald Ross (1922-2014) was a South African-born British cardiac surgeon known for innovations in heart-valve surgery. I...

Pioneer Cardiac British Valve

8.8 Great

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Clarence Crafoord

Clarence Crafoord (1899-1984) was a Swedish surgeon who contributed to the emergence of cardiac and thoracic surgery. In...

Pioneer Cardiac Swedish Coarctation

8.8 Great

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Åke Senning

Åke Senning (1915-2000) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon whose work addressed both abnormal heart rhythms and congenital he...

Pioneer Cardiac Pacemaker Swedish

8.8 Great

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Brian Barratt-Boyes

Brian Barratt-Boyes (1924-2006) was a New Zealand cardiac surgeon who helped establish open-heart surgery at Green Lane...

New Zealand Pioneer Cardiac Valve

8.8 Great

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Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established select...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.8 Great

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Michel Mirowski

Michel Mirowski (1924-1990) was a Polish-born physician who helped develop the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, a...

Pioneer Cardiac Defibrillator Polish American

8.7 Great

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Dwight Harken

Dwight Harken was an American cardiac surgeon known for advances made during and after the Second World War. While treat...

American Wwii Pioneer Cardiac

8.6 Great

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Richard Lower

Richard Lower was an American cardiac surgeon who worked with Norman Shumway at Stanford University on the experimental...

American Pioneer Cardiac Heart

8.6 Great

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Russell Brock

Russell Brock, later Baron Brock of Wimbledon, was a British surgeon who contributed to the development of modern cardia...

Pioneer Cardiac British Pulmonary

8.5 Great

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Claude Beck

Claude Beck was an American cardiac surgeon associated with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals in...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.5 Great

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Charles Dubost

Charles Dubost was a French cardiac and vascular surgeon known for major contributions to aortic surgery. In Paris in 19...

French Pioneer Cardiac Vascular

8.4 Great

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Paul Zoll

Paul Zoll was an American cardiologist whose research established important clinical uses for electrical stimulation of...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pacemaker

8.4 Great

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Charles Bailey

Charles P. Bailey was an American cardiac surgeon associated with the early surgical treatment of mitral valve disease....

American Pioneer Cardiac Mitral

8.3 Great

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Adrian Kantrowitz

Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon whose work included heart transplantation and mechanical assistance fo...

American Pioneer Cardiac Transplant

8.2 Great