• Revista médica de Chile · Oct 1996

    Biography Historical Article

    [1896-1996: a century of cardiac surgery. Ludwig Rehn and the first heart surgery].

    • R Zalaquett.
    • Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
    • Rev Med Chil. 1996 Oct 1;124(10):1281-4.

    AbstractIn 1896 Stephen Paget published his book "Surgery of the Chest", where he affirmed that heart surgery had probably reached the limits of nature for any kind of surgery. This statement followed Billroth's who, few years earlier, sustained that the surgeon who attempted a suture of a wound in the heart was sure to loose forever the consideration of his colleagues. However, that very year of 1896 in Frankfurt, Ludwig Rehn succeeded in suturing a stab wound of a man's heart. By accomplishing this, he not only proved his colleagues wrong, but he made the heart, center of life and site of the soul, accessible to the surgeon, opening the way to what is today cardiovascular surgery.

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