Science on the 2nd of September 1952 in history

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02 Sep 1952 cardiac shunt	science	cardiac shunt (medicine) The first successful operation to correct a cardiac shunt ("hole in the heart") is performed by Drs F. John Lewis and C. Walton Lillehei on a 5-year-old girl in the United States utilising the induced hypothermia technique developed by Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow.	0

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