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Article: Pioneer Cardiac Surgeon Charles A. Hufnagel Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- June 1, 1989
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Charles Anthony Hufnagel, 72, a pioneering cardiac surgeon who
developed and implanted the first artificial heart valve in a human
patient, died yesterday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had heart,
lung and kidney ailments.
Dr. Hufnagel also participated in the first human kidney
transplant, an operation he performed with two other surgeons in 1947
in the patient's room by the light of gooseneck lamps at Boston's
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
He was instrumental in the development of the modern heart-lung
machine used during open heart surgery, and his principles of early
heart valve construction still serve as a model for today's implants.
In 1950, Dr. Hufnagel joined the staff at ...