An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
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Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 2, 266-286, 1906."The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processes." This paper anticipated the use of vein grafts to restore circulation in damaged arteries to the heart, the so-called coronary artery bypass graft.
Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY, TRANSPLANTATION Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/13762 |