Saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft
Bypass aortocoronario con vena safena
- Date
- 9 de mayo de 1967 · confidence high
- Place
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Credited to
- René Favaloro
- People
- 👤 René Favaloro1923–2000
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
The Argentine surgeon systematised the saphenous-vein graft from the aorta to the blocked coronary artery, the most commonly performed heart operation in the world. It revolutionised the treatment of ischaemic heart disease.
Performed in the United States; Kolesov (Leningrad, 1964) had already done a mammary-coronary bypass, and Garrett performed an emergency saphenous-vein graft (1964). Favaloro's contribution was to systematise it.
What it led to
- coronary revascularisation surgery
- the Favaloro Foundation in Buenos Aires (1975)