Henry Opitek

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title: Henry Opitek
text: Henry Opitek became the first patient to survive open heart surgery in 1952. On July 3, 1952, Opitek, a 41-year-old male suffering from shortness of breath, made medical history at Harper University Hospital in Michigan. The Dodrill-GMR heart machine, considered by some to be the first operational mechanical heart was successfully used while performing heart surgery on Opitek. Forest Dewey Dodrill, a surgeon at Wayne State University's Harper Hospital in Detroit, used the machine to bypass Opite
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