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Fifty years ago, in my boyhood, a guy who blew out a mitral valve was sent home to sit in a sunny corner and play cribbage until congestive heart failure swept him away. Open-heart surgery was big news. One of the pioneers was C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota, a local celebrity on the order of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The operations were enormously expensive, the survival rate around 50%, and Minnesota has always had plenty of finger waggers to remind you that all that money spent to repair that fat man's aorta could have bought nourishing...
DIED. DR. C. WALTON LILLEHEI, 80, surgical pioneer; of cancer; in St. Paul, Minn. Lillehei performed the first successful open-heart surgery, on a five-year-old girl, in 1952. He was instrumental in developing the wearable pacemaker and artificial heart valves...
...absence of injured Carl Biello at 134 forced Harvard to gamble with 126-pound freshman Bill Haley in Biello's spot and freshman Mitch Silverman at 126. Haley lost a close match to Cornell's Kevin Lillehei, 3-2, and squandered a lead against UMass to lose again, 7-5. Silverman looked weak and lost decisions to Cornell and UMass by ten-point margins...
...performed only once before, and then unsuccessfully: transplantation of a heart and two lungs. Then a 50-year-old woman was admitted after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. Her blood-cell types were a fairly good match with Falk's. As she lay dying, Surgeon-in-Chief C. Walton Lillehei alerted his team. They spent Christmas morning transplanting her heart and lungs, including both bronchi and the lower third of the windpipe. Because the surgical procedures required were more difficult than those for heart transplants, the operation took 3½ hours...
Memorial's medical director, Dr. Edward Beattie, called on New York Hospital's surgeon-in-chief, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, to send for the organs that his staff could use. While the body was perfused with oxygenated blood to ward off tissue degeneration, Lillehei's assistants removed the eyes for fresh-cornea transplants, both kidneys and the heart, and rushed them by underground tunnels to waiting surgery teams. Within a few hours, the Lillehei group had transplanted the heart (into a 36-year-old man), both kidneys and one cornea-the second cornea a day later...