Archive for May 25th, 2011
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HEART SURGERY IN EARLY YEARS: QUICK THINKING AND NEW DISCOVERIES
In 1925 Henry Souttar, a surgeon whose invention, ‘Souttar’s Eyeless Needle’, is still in use in operating theatres around the world, carried out the first successful mitral stenosis (blockage of the mitral valve) operation on a patient called Lily Hine, who had been given a mere six months to live. It was an extraordinary operation, [...]