Yonsei Med J.  2016 Nov;57(6):1301-1304. 10.3349/ymj.2016.57.6.1301.

Passion in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Korea: Remembering Professor Pill Whoon Hong, M.D.

• Chang BC
• Cho BK

• KMID: 2427144
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2016.57.6.1301

Abstract

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  Fig. 1 Severance Hospital was nearly destroyed during the Korean War in 1953.

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  Fig. 2 Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho (left) and Professor Hong (right) with the patient who successfully underwent the first heart surgery with mitral commissurotomy in Korea.

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  Fig. 3 Professor Hong married Bong-Hwa Kim on the 5th of October, 1956. He had three sons, two of whom are physicians, the eldest (Steve) and the second (Walter). His third son, Robert, is a banker.

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  Fig. 4 Open heart surgery for animal research, with a Sigma-Motor pump, helical reservoir oxygenator, and heat exchanger.

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  Fig. 5 (A) A sculpted portrait of the late Professor Hong by sculptor Moon Ki Paik, a member of the National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea. (B) The unveiling of the portrait in 2016, in the presence of thoracic surgery alumni of Severance Hospital.

Reference

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2. Hong PW, Lim ES. Tetralogy of fallot: a report of 3 operative cases. Korean Med J. 1959; 4:697–708.

3. Cha HD, Suh JS, Park HK, Hong PW. Left heart catheterization. Korean J Intern Med. 1965; 8:299–307.

4. Hong SR, Oh HG, Lee SY, Hong PW. Open heart surgery under hypothermia. An experimental study. J Korean Surg Soc. 1961; 3:137–143.

5. Hong PW, Lee SS, Hong SN, Kim SW. Extracorporeal circulation combined with hypothermia and hemodilution technique. Yonsei Med J. 1963; 4:58–64.

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