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Season 15 · Episode 13

Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart

0.055mSeptember 13, 1988

Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.

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Episode 1Top Gun and Beyond
Episode 2How to Create a Junk Food
Episode 3Buried in Ice
Episode 4Why Planes Burn
Episode 5Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial
Episode 6Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide
Episode 7The Mystery of the Master Builders
Episode 8Whale Rescue

Episode 9

The Man Who Loved Numbers

Episode 10Race for the Superconductor

Episode 11Can You Still Get Polio?

Episode 12Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft

Episode 13Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart

Episode 14Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old

Episode 15Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife

Episode 16Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?

Episode 17Can the Next President Win the Space Race?

Episode 18Do Scientists Cheat?

Episode 19Who Shot President Kennedy?

Episode 20The Light Stuff

Episode 21The All-American Bear

Episode 22Can We Make a Better Doctor?