Favaloro no fue el primero en hacer...

Según wikipedia en inglés. Favaloro no fue el primero en realizar la cirugía de bypass.




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The first coronary artery bypass surgery was performed in the United States on May 2, 1960, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx Municipal Hospital Center by a team led by Dr. Robert H. Goetz and the thoracic surgeon, Dr. Michael Rohman with the assistance of Dr. Jordan Haller and Dr. Ronald Dee.[35][36] In this technique the vessels are held together with circumferential ligatures over an inserted metal ring. The internal mammary artery was used as the donor vessel and was anastomosed to the right coronary artery. The actual anastomosis with the Rosenbach ring took fifteen seconds and did not require cardiopulmonary bypass. The disadvantage of using the internal mammary artery was that, at autopsy nine months later, the anastomosis was open, but an atheromatous plaque had occluded the origin of the internal mammary that was used for the bypasS.













Según Wikipedia la primera operación con Bypass la hizo Dr. Robert H. Goetz y favaloro solo perfecciono el metodo.












Fuente


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery_bypass_surgery