by Tyler Bauer & Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili | Sep 2, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 8 of Artificial Organs, 04 September 2018 On May the 6th, 1953 John H. Gibbon Jr., MD (Dr. Gibbon) became the first surgeon to perform an open cardiotomy during bypass under direct vision in a human, by repairing an interatrial...
by Shelley McKeller | Sep 1, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 5 of Artificial Organs, 16 May 2018 Could a mechanical heart be built? One that would be good enough to use clinically? How fanciful was this idea, and, if taken on, how best to go about it? In the late 1950s and 1960s, three...
by Satoru Nakamoto | Aug 30, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 2 of Artificial Organs, 13 February 2018 It was July 1956 and I was ready to start a research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) in Cleveland, OH under Dr. Willem Kolff (Fig. 1). As a Japanese exchange fellow, I was...
by Cheuk-Chun Szeto | Aug 29, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 40 Issue 3 of Artificial Organs, 04 March 2016 Since the development of silicone peritoneal catheter and plastic bag systems, peritoneal dialysis (PD) has gained acceptance as a mode of long-term renal replacement therapy (RRT) over the...
by Lee W. Henderson | Aug 28, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 39 Issue 12 of Artificial Organs, 02 December 2015 I would like to thank Drs. Todd Ing and Paul Malchesky for inviting me to contribute a second editorial to the Artificial Organs “Pioneer” Series. My first contribution was based on my...
by Jean Kantrowitz | Aug 27, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 39 Issue 6 of Artificial Organs, 03 June 2015 In June 1967, at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz and his surgical team successfully used a new device—the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)—to treat a patient...
