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Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.
10 de feb. de 2006 · STANFORD, Calif. — Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD, the father of heart transplantation and one of the pre-eminent heart surgeons of his time, died Feb. 10 at his Palo Alto home of complications from cancer, the Stanford University School of Medicine announced.
11 de feb. de 2006 · Feb. 11, 2006. Dr. Norman E. Shumway, the Stanford cardiac surgeon who in 1968 performed the United States' first successful human heart transplant and later made the operation a standard ...
El tema de los trasplantes cardíacos se vuelve popular y para 1971, se reportan 170 procedimientos en el mundo, con 146 muertes, Shumway reconoce que la parte técnica no es el problema sino el rechazo del corazón. Los cirujanos cardíacos abandonan la intervención pero no el grupo de Stanford.
Shumway y Reitz realizaron el primer trasplante del bloque corazón-pulmón con éxito en 1981, abriendo la puerta al trasplante cardiopulmonar. Norman E. Shumway ha sido un maestro. Ha guiado a varias generaciones de cirujanos a los que ha enseñado a trabajar y a pensar, a afrontar los problemas con rigor y decisión, y que ha contribuido a ...
8 de abr. de 2024 · Norman E. Shumway (born February 9, 1923, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.—died February 10, 2006, Palo Alto, California) was an American surgeon and pioneer in cardiac transplantation. On January 6, 1968, at the Stanford Medical Center in Stanford, California, he performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States.
Norman E. Shumway was a master who has guided several generations of surgeons, surgeons who have been taught how to work and think, and to solve problems with rigor and decisiveness. His protégées have been set on a good course.
