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Open Heart Surgery. Cost: $324,000. With heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. at 26%, open heart surgery is a more common procedure than may be expected. Part of the high cost of open heart surgery is because it's often an urgent medical procedure that is usually followed by complications.
Willem Kolff invented both the first artificial heart and the first artificial kidney-dialysis machine. Heart Lung Machine The first heart-lung machine was built by physician John Heysham Gibbon in 1937. Gibbon performed the first human open heart operation in 1953.