title: A surgeon to remember: notes about Vladimir Demikhov.
abstract: Vladimir Demikhov, first to transplant an auxiliary heart into the chest of a warm-blooded animal, first to replace the heart with a homograft, first to carry out a pulmonary transplantation, first to perform a complete heart and lung replacement, and first to perform a successful internal mammary-coronary anastomosis, deserves a place among the great experimental surgeons of all times. He has not had the widespread recognition he earned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Shumacker
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000266:history; D012426:Russia