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For One Stanford Doctor, the Beat Goes on During Open-Heart Surgery; Part of a New Trend in Cardiac Medicine, Kai Ihnken Does Bypass Procedures While Heart Continues to Pump.
STANFORD, Calif. -- In a Stanford Hospital surgery room on a recent afternoon, heart surgeon Kai Ihnken demonstrated how he repositions the beating heart while it's still inside the chest of a 78-year-old man undergoing triple bypass surgery. The surgeon reached into the chest, lifted the beating ...
April 25, 2006; Business Wire

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