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The development of coronary artery surgery: personal recollections

John E Connolly. Tex Heart Inst J. 2002.

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Fig. 1 Diagram of a dog's heart with an ameroid constrictor around the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) and a saphenous vein bypass from the aortic arch to the distal LAD.

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Fig. 2 Operative procedure for ostial coronary endarterectomy: 1) ascending aortotomy; 2) constant perfusion of the left coronary ostium; 3) piecemeal removal of atheromatous ostial blockage; 4) probing proximal coronary artery; and 5) closed aortotomy. (From Connolly JE, et al. Copyright © 1964 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.)

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Fig. 3 Cast of dog's heart shows patent ascending aorta-to-coronary artery bypass via a reversed saphenous vein graft placed 13 years earlier.

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Fig. 4 Angiogram 2 months after insertion of a Vineberg internal mammary artery into the left ventricle of a dog. Note the open communications with branches of the coronary artery. (From Wakabayashi A, Connolly JE. Reproduced with permission of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.)

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