心脏外科医生和主动脉瓣膜手术革新的新纪元

A New Era for Cardiothoracic Surgeons and Innovation on Aortic Valve Surgery

上述话语不仅是令人沮丧的言词，而且也是对19世纪末外科医生坦诚的告诫：心外科是没有未来的。好在20世纪一批富于创新的外科先驱们没有理会这些疑惑，在相对较短的一段时间里，迅速而显著地改变了单一器官系统的治疗方法，成为医学史上的奇迹。几件大事被视为宣告现代心外科时代的开始，包括Rehn在1896年第1次成功缝补了1例心脏外伤，

Those were not only discouraging words but genuine warnings to surgeons at the end of the 19th century that cardiac surgery was not to be a part of their future. Fortunately, the innovative surgical pioneers of the 20th century ignored such misgivings and within a relatively short period of time, produced perhaps the most rapid and dramatic changes in the treatment of one organ system in the history of medicine. Several events are viewed as heralding the beginning of modern cardiac surgery, including Rehn＇s first successful suture closure of a heart wound in 1896,