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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:870-871
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Our Surgical Heritage

Francisco Romero, the First Heart Surgeon

Alejandro Aris, MD, PhD

Cardiac Surgery Service, Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Romero, a Catalonian physician, became the first heart surgeon when he performed an open pericardiostomy to treat a pericardial effusion in 1801. He presented his work at the Society of the School of Medicine in Paris in 1815, but the procedure was considered too aggressive and his work was silenced for many years. Proper credit should be given to Romero as the first man who directly approached the heart by incising the pericardium.






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