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Galen: The First Cardiac Surgeon?

Mohammad Reza RajabnejadMaryam RanjbarMohammad Al-Attar
Published in: The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon (2020)
It is widely believed that the first and the second pericardium surgeries were done in the nineteenth century by Francisco Romero and Dominique Jean Larrey, respectively; however, Galen was the first surgeon who proceeded with pericardiectomy. This ancient case report of sternum osteomyelitis and pericardiectomy illuminates some dark part of the history of medicine and the ability of physicians in that era.
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