Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

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The creation of heart-lung bypass was clearly "one of the major milestones of modern medicine," said Dr. James K. Kirklin, the former director of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Alabama at ...