1. The evolution of cardiovascular surgery in China
Song Wan, MD, PhD, Anthony P.C Yim, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 76, Issue 6, Pages (December 2003)
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2. Fig 1 Doctor Shih Mei-Hsin in 1978. (Courtesy of Dr Shih Mei-Hsin.)
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3. Fig 2
The patient who underwent the first Blalock-Taussig procedure in China visited Dr Shih at Zhong-Shan Hospital in Shanghai 38 years later. (Courtesy of Dr Shih Mei-Hsin.)
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4. Fig 3 Doctor Su Hong-Xi in 1958.
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5. Fig 4
(A) The patient who underwent the first cardiopulmonary bypass procedure in China in 1958 (inset) and in 1998 (with his wife and daughter). (B) Doctor Su (second from left) and colleagues at the operation, including Dr Liu Wei-Yong (third from left). (Courtesy of Dr Liu Wei-Yong.)
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6. Fig 5
The first Chinese made heart-lung machine used at Shanghai Chest Hospital in July (Courtesy of Shanghai Chest Hospital.)
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7. Fig 6
A temporary shunt of vascular prosthesis between the ascending and descending aorta for resection of an aortic arch aneurysm with homograft replacement in (Reprinted from Shih MH, et al, Chin Med J 1960;8:505–13 [17], [16]with permission.)
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8. Fig 7
The heart-lung machine used in 1959 at Zhong-Shan Hospital in Shanghai. (Courtesy of Dr Shih Mei-Hsin.)
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9. Fig 8
Whole-body cooling during a hypothermic open-heart operation at Fu-Wai Hospital in (Courtesy of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.)
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10. Fig 9
Doctor Hou You-Lin (first from right), the founding Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fu-Wai Hospital, Beijing.
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11. Fig 10
The heart-lung machine used in late 1959 at Fu-Wai Hospital, Beijing. (Courtesy of Dr Xiao Ming-Di.)
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