Axel Cappelen

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Axel Cappelen (1858–1919)^[1] was a Norwegian surgeon. He is credited with performing the first surgery on the heart on the human heart on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania.^[2]

The patient needed emergency surgery due to a knife wound. Cappelen accessed the thoracic cavity by cutting through the fourth rib. He repaired the wound of the left ventricle where he has sustained the stab wounds in the left side of his chest. After two days of intensive care, the patient died of coronary occlusion and not because of the repairing of the heart. The wound was found to be satisfactorily closed at the autopsy.^[3]

References

↑ "Axel H. Cappelen, MD (1858-1919): first suture of a myocardial laceration from a cardiac stab wound.". MD Anderson Cancer Center. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
↑ "The 1st heart surgery was done by whom?". WikiAnswers. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
↑ "Evolution of Cardiac Surgery". Retrieved 25 April 2012.

Persondata
Name	Cappelen, Axel
Alternative names
Short description	Cardiac surgeon
Date of birth	1858
Place of birth
Date of death	1919
Place of death

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