Mike Shaw (heart operation patient)
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Michael Eugene "Mike" Shaw (born February 16, 1944) is known as the patient in the first successful open heart sugery of tetralogy of Fallot. The operation was performed by Doctor C. Walton Lillehei, the "Father of open heart surgery", at the Heart Hospital at the University of Minnesota in 1954. Shaw is also an inductee into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame and, along with his brother Terry R. Shaw, into the Minnesota Rock/Country Hall of Fame for playing in the bands Shaw-Allen-Shaw and the Shaw Band.
The story of Mike Shaw's famous operation told in the G. Wayne Miller book King of Hearts about the doctor who performed the operation, Dr. Lillehei, and in Terry R. Shaw's autobiography Terry Tales.
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