English to Italian Medical Medical: Cardiology operazione al cuore, macchina cuore-polmone

One surgeon who believed there
was an alternative was
C. Walton Lillehei, considered by many the most innovative
surgeon of the twentieth century.
Born and raised in Minneapolis,
Lillehei grew up an inveterate tinkerer. As a teenager,
when his parents refused to buy him a motorcycle, he built one
out of spare parts. He brought that engineering mentality to
his surgical research. His small research lab in the attic of Millard
Hall at the University
of Minnesota was nothing more than
two operating tables,
a sink, and a few oxygen tanks. But it was
there,
following his chief Owen Wangensteen’s edict to transform
the department into a center of surgical invention, that
Lillehei developed perhaps the most bizarre idea in the history
of surgery: controlled cross-circulation.