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This "state-of-the-art" review of surgical treatment for cardiac and vascular disease revealed the progress, and the severe limitations of this field in the years just before hypothermia and heart-lung bypass technology made longer surgeries, including open-heart surgery, possible.
Periodical. DeBakey, Michael E. "Diseases of the Cardiovascular System (Surgical)." Annual Review of Medicine, (1950): 79-96. Article. 18 Images.. Annual Review of Medicine