Word: favaloro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cardiologist, charged that "the VA's patients were the most unsuitable group to study because their mortality under medical therapy alone was already less than 1 %." In agreement was Dr. Donald B. Effler, head of cardiovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic when his chief associate, Dr. René Favaloro, developed the bypass. Said Effler: "I think the VA report has already been shot down, and if not, then it will be before sunset." Favaloro, recalled from his home base in Argentina to deliver one of the session's two principal lectures, made an impassioned, hour-long argument...
This imaginative operation was not widely noted. But meanwhile, at the Cleveland Clinic in 1967, Argentine-born Dr. Rene G. Favaloro hit upon the same idea. His chief, Dr. Donald...
...operations worked moderately well. But what revolutionized revascularization was a procedure developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. René Favaloro, now 48, an Argentine-born surgeon who joined Effler in 1962 to study coronary-artery disease. In an operation first performed four years ago next week, he removed a section of his patient's saphenous vein, attached one end to the blocked right coronary artery at a point below the obstruction, stitched the other to a spot on the aorta above the blockage. The procedure allowed blood to bypass the blockage and greatly improved the heart...
...Pass. Effler and Favaloro believe that bypass grafts, particularly when combined with mammary implants, are the ideal solution to most coronary conditions. Dr. W. Dudley Johnson of Milwaukee, a hard-driving perfectionist who claims credit for the first double and triple bypass grafts, tends to agree, though he differs slightly in his approach to arterial problems. He questions whether angiography tells a surgeon all that he needs to know and feels that some conditions must be observed more thoroughly to be properly evaluated. As a result, Johnson operates on many patients whom the Cleveland crew would reject as unfit...