title: Hugh Henry Bentall, a pioneer of cardiovascular surgery.
abstract: Hugh Henry Bentall, the inventor of the surgical procedure that enabled concomitant replacement of the aortic valve and ascending aorta, died on September 2012 at the age of 92. He was the first Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the United Kingdom, at the Hammersmith Hospital, and carried out the first open-heart operations with a heart-lung machine in London in 1953. Besides cardiac surgery, he paid particular attention to cardiac anatomy and embryology, which he enriched even following retirement. He leaves three sons and a daughter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thiene
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans
keywords: Aortic disease; Bentall procedure; Obituary