Hugh Bentall
Hugh Bentall
open-heart surgery
.
Career
Hugh Henry Bentall was educated at
Empire Clyde in the Pacific Fleet, and later in Singapore
treating liberated prisoners of war.
Bentall was Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at
Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow where they carried out five open-heart operations, watched by more than 200 of the Soviet Union's leading surgeons. In 1962 he performed an operation to repair a "hole in the heart" which was filmed for the BBC TV series Your Life in Their Hands. In 1966 he devised a procedure to treat a patient with Marfan syndrome, replacing the aortic valve and ascending aorta in a single operation. This is now known as the Bentall procedure
and is widely used.
Bentall taught at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1959 as lecturer, from 1962 as reader and from 1965 as Britain's first Professor of Cardiac Surgery. He retired in 1985.
References
- BENTALL, Hugh Henry, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, retrieved 29 Oct 2012
- Obituary – Professor Hugh Bentall, The Telegraph, London, 30 October 2012
- Obituary – Hugh Bentall, 1920-2012, Times Higher Education, London, 11 October 2012
- Bentall Procedure for Giant Ascending Aortic Aneurysm VIDEO
- Obituary - William "Bill" Cleland, The Guardian, London, 21 May 2005. Author Hugh Bentall
- Obiturary - Hugh Henry Bentall BMJ2012 345:e8010, 8 December 2012