presidential address the adventure of cardiac surgeryq（总统解决心脏surgeryq的冒险）.pdfVIP

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 21 (2002) 167–180 /locate/ejcts Presidential address The adventure of cardiac surgeryq * Marcos Murtra Cardiac Surgical Department, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Autonomic University of Barcelona, Spain Received 17 September 2001; received in revised form 5 December 2001; accepted 10 December 2001 1. Introduction edge. But at the same time, it is very easy to forget about the past and how we arrived where we are today. It has been a great pleasure to serve the Association I would like to review the most important achievements during this year as your President, and an honour and privi- in cardiac surgery, especially some of the contributions lege to continue the work done during the last 15 years by so from Europe, without ignoring so many others mainly many people. It is impossible to mention every one, but let from North America. There are more than 100 years of me thank some, for their dedication and exceptional efforts: cardiac surgical history, with two different periods, each the founder of our Association and first President Francis one of 50 years more or less: the before and the after of Fontan, our former two editors, Hans