1. The History of Surgery for Ischemic Heart Disease
Richard L Mueller, Todd K Rosengart, O.Wayne Isom 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 63, Issue 3, Pages (March 1997)
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2. Fig. 1
Claude S. Beck (1894–1974). (Reprinted from Green GE, Singh RN, Sosa JA. Surgical revascularization of the heart: the internal thoracic arteries. New York: Igaku-Shoin, 1991:xiv.)
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3. Fig. 2
John H. Gibbon, Jr (1903–1973). (Reprinted with permission from Biographical Memoirs, Volume 53. Copyright 1981 by the National Academy of Sciences. Courtesy of the National Academy Press, Washington, DC.)
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4. Fig. 3
Arthur M. Vineberg (1903–1988). (Reprinted from Green GE, Singh RN, Sosa JA. Surgical revascularization of the heart: the internal thoracic arteries. New York: Igaku-Shoin, 1991:xiv.)
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5. Fig. 4
The first successful experimental arterial–coronary artery bypass autograft, using an intraluminal shunt and either an axillary or free autogenous carotid graft from the subclavian artery, performed by Gordon Murray in This procedure was the forerunner of the currently used internal mammary artery bypass graft procedure. (Reprinted from Murray G, Porcheron R, Hilario J, Roschlau W. Anastomosis of a systemic artery to the coronary. Can Med Assoc J 1954;71:594–7, by permission of the publisher.)
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6. Fig. 5
The first human saphenous vein–coronary artery bypass, performed by David Sabiston, Jr, in The vein autograft was anastomosed end-to-side from the ascending aorta (Ao) and end-to-end to the distal right coronary artery; the proximal, cut end of the artery has been ligated. The patient died 3 days later. (Reprinted from Sabiston DC. The William F. Rienhoff, Jr. Lecture. The coronary circulation. Bull J Hopkins Hosp 1974;134:314–29. © The Johns Hopkins University Press.)
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7. Fig. 6
The saphenous vein bypass graft operations performed on the right coronary artery by Rene Favaloro and Donald Effler, beginning in May (A) Aortocoronary bypass graft, end-to-end distal anastomosis. (B) Aortocoronary bypass graft, end-to-side distal anastomosis. (Reprinted from Effler DB, Favaloro RG, Groves LK. Coronary artery surgery utilizing saphenous vein graft techniques: clinical experience with 224 operations. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1970;59:147–54.)
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