The Paediatric Cardiology Hall of Fame – Donald Nixon Ross.
نویسنده
چکیده
Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS (4 October 1922 to 7 July 2014) was a South African-born British cardiothoracic surgeon, who developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for the treatment of aortic valve disease, and also performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968. This paper, written by Jane Somerville, Professor of Cardiology [Retired], Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, provides the personal recollections about Donald Ross from Jane Somerville, and thus provides a unique snapshot of cardiac surgical history.
منابع مشابه
The Baseball Hall of Fame is not the kiss of death.
E. Abel andM. Kruger (2005) reported that the median life expectancy of Major League Baseball players after election to the Baseball Hall of Fame is 5 years shorter than that of players of the same age who are not elected to the Hall of Fame. This conclusion is surprising because there is no compelling explanation for such a dramatic reduction in life expectancy. However, the data used in that ...
متن کاملThe longevity of Baseball Hall of Famers compared to other players.
The authors compared the longevity of all baseball players alive at the time of their induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame with age-matched controls who were likewise alive at the time of the Hall of Famer's induction, and also matched them for career length, player position, and body-mass index, to assess if fame in sports is associated with increased longevity. Median post-induction survi...
متن کاملBuilding and Maintaining Halls of Fame over a Database
Halls of Fame are fascinating constructs. They represent the elite of an often very large amount of entities—persons, companies, products, countries etc. Beyond their practical use as static rankings, changes to them are particularly interesting—for decision making processes, as input to common media or novel narrative science applications, or simply consumed by users. In this work, we aim at d...
متن کاملAi's Hall of Fame
AI’sHall of Fame In 2010, as the part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine, our editorial and advisory boards decided to launch the IEEE Intelligent Systems Hall of Fame to express our appreciation and respect for the trailblazers who have made significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems and to honor them for their notable impa...
متن کاملReport from The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: cardiovascular catheterisation for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease (Part 1 - Procedural nomenclature).
Interventional cardiology for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease is a relatively young and rapidly evolving field. As the profession begins to establish multi-institutional databases, a universal system of nomenclature is necessary for the field of interventional cardiology for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the efforts o...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cardiology in the young
دوره 25 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015