W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr.
Editor

2014

The Giants! – Cardiac surgeons and their patients have enjoyed meteoric advancements over the last 60 years. In the early 1950s, pioneers Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley showed that thoracic aneurysms could be treated successfully by excision and grafting with either a homograft or a textile tube. Simultaneously, John Gibbon and C. Walton Lillehei moved us from the shadows of closed cardiac surgery into the light of open-heart operations.