Word: favaloro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decide how to treat it. That has now been overcome by improved techniques for X-raying the heart's arteries, developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr. Relying on these, two of the Clinic's surgeons, Dr. Donald B. Effler and Dr. Rene Favaloro, have performed 51 operations of a new and promising type. They cut out the diseased segment of the coronary artery itself. Then they replace it with a graft. But unlike the transplant surgeons, Dr. Effler's team has no worry about rejection because it gets the graft material from...