LILLEHEI, Clarence Walton (1918 – 1999)
1918 – 1999
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1954 CE
#3047.6
Controlled cross circulation for open intracardiac surgery; physiologic studies and results of creation and closure of ventricular septal defects.
Warden and colleagues undertook the first repair of various cardiac anomalies. With M. Cohen, and R.C. Read.
1955 CE
#3047.7
Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.
Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.
1958 CE
#3047.11
The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.
LILLEHEI, Clarence Walton (1918 – 1999) WEIRICH, William L. (1924 – 2014) GOTT, Vincent Lynn (1927 – )
Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…