Here is the history:
Dwight Harken. Dr. Dwight Harkin was a U.S. Army Surgeon and saw many soldiers who had shrapnel or bullets imbedded in their hearts. The human heart was one organ that had never been violated by the surgeon's scalpel and no attempt was made to remove the fragments from the soldier's hearts. However, the problem got him interested in the possibility of doing surgery on the heart while it was still beating. His experiments on dogs proved that closed heart surgery could be performed successfully. In 1960 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston he made an artificial valve and successfully implanted it to replace the damaged aortic valve of a human heart. New devices and procedures are always preceded by others. (At an earlier date Harken and Bailey independently had performed a closed heart procedure to dilate a constricted mitral valve with their finger, with initial poor {results;} Lillehei is considered the Father of open heart surgery, which he performed after the patient's body temperature had been reduced to 80 degrees {F.;} Barnard performed the first heart transplant).
Then this merger happened:
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. Brigham and Women's is a major teaching affiliate (and directly adjacent to the campus) of Harvard Medical School. Brigham and Women's is also affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Brigham and Women's Hospital represents the 1975 merger of three Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals: The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (formed in 1913), the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital (1914), and the Boston Hospital for Women (itself a merger of the Boston Lying-in Hospital (1832) and the Free Hospital for Women
So why does this list not included Dr. Harkins 1960 historic surgery:
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/general/BWHMilestones.asp
Is this a gross oversight or are heart valves unimportant?
I thought maybe VR.com Boston members might have a clue?
I got no reply from the hospital.
Dwight Harken. Dr. Dwight Harkin was a U.S. Army Surgeon and saw many soldiers who had shrapnel or bullets imbedded in their hearts. The human heart was one organ that had never been violated by the surgeon's scalpel and no attempt was made to remove the fragments from the soldier's hearts. However, the problem got him interested in the possibility of doing surgery on the heart while it was still beating. His experiments on dogs proved that closed heart surgery could be performed successfully. In 1960 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston he made an artificial valve and successfully implanted it to replace the damaged aortic valve of a human heart. New devices and procedures are always preceded by others. (At an earlier date Harken and Bailey independently had performed a closed heart procedure to dilate a constricted mitral valve with their finger, with initial poor {results;} Lillehei is considered the Father of open heart surgery, which he performed after the patient's body temperature had been reduced to 80 degrees {F.;} Barnard performed the first heart transplant).
Then this merger happened:
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. Brigham and Women's is a major teaching affiliate (and directly adjacent to the campus) of Harvard Medical School. Brigham and Women's is also affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Brigham and Women's Hospital represents the 1975 merger of three Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals: The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (formed in 1913), the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital (1914), and the Boston Hospital for Women (itself a merger of the Boston Lying-in Hospital (1832) and the Free Hospital for Women
So why does this list not included Dr. Harkins 1960 historic surgery:
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/general/BWHMilestones.asp
Is this a gross oversight or are heart valves unimportant?
I thought maybe VR.com Boston members might have a clue?
I got no reply from the hospital.
