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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Medicine, Motion Pictures of Open Heart Surgery, A&M 5247, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Content Description

Fourteen videos of early open heart surgery. Subjects include "closure of ventricular septal defect and resection" and "resection of a left ventricular aneurysm", among others. The fourteen videos were digitized from the original footage which is contained in nine film cans.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Heart surgery.