1. The First Closure of the Persistent Ductus Arteriosus
Vladimir V. Alexi-Meskishvili, MD, PhD, Wolfgang Böttcher, ECCP 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 90, Issue 1, Pages (July 2010)
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2. Fig 1
Title page of Leonardo Botallo's publication (1564), which has been erroneously regarded as first description of the ductus arteriosus.
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3. Fig 2
Botallo's illustration that appeared in his Opera Omnia (1660) and shows a ductus arteriosus (“canalis à pulmonali arteria tendens in aortam”).
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4. Fig 3
John Munro.
Reprinted with permission from A History of Cardiac Surgery, Meade RH, 882 [8], Copyright Charles C. Thomas (1964).
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5. Fig 4
Munro's publication of 1907, in which ligation of the ductus arteriosus was first proposed.
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6. Fig 5
John Strieder.
Reprinted with permission from Ann Thorac Surg, Vol. 4, Festschrift for John W. Strieder, 505–13 [11], Copyright Elsevier (1967).
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7. Fig 6
Autopsy findings from the female patient operated on by Strieder on March Vegetations were seen to reach from the ductus to the pulmonary valve.
Reprinted with kind permission from Am Heart J, Vol. 15, Graybiel A, Strieder JW, Boyer NH, An attempt to obliterate the patent ductus arteriosus in a patient with subacute bacterial endarteritis, 621–4 [13], Copyright Elsevier (1938).
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8. Fig 7
Robert Gross.
Reproduced with permission from A History of Cardiac Surgery, Meade RH, 861 [8], Copyright Charles C. Thomas (1964).
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9. Fig 8
The entry “8/26/38, Lorraine Sweeney, 220/00, Ligation—patent ductus arteriosus”. The corresponding page of the register of operations that Gross performed. Kindly provided by Robert Replogle MD, PhD.
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