Francisco Romero (surgeon)

Francisco Romero was a Spanish physician who became the first successful heart surgeon, on record, by performing an open pericardiostomy to treat a pericardial effusion in 1801.[1] According to a lost, but later found, memoir belonging to Romero, he performed at least two successful open pericardial drainages with no deaths.[2] Also according to his memoir, he performed five open drainages of pleural effusions with success, with one patient dying at 6 months.[2] Romero is credited as the first heart surgeon, since he was the first medical doctor on record to cut into the pericardium, the lining of the heart, on a living patient with a successful outcome.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9307502#
  2. 1 2 Aris, Alejandro MD, PhD (1997). "Francisco Romero, the First Heart Surgeon". http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/. Elsevier Science Inc; The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  3. ↑ http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(97)00760-1/fulltext
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