Abstract

LOPEZ DE LA CRUZ, Yoandy. William Polk Longmire Jr. and the first 60 years of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. CorSalud [online]. 2018, vol.10, n.2, pp. 158-163. ISSN 2078-7170.

According to published data, myocardial revascularization procedures to improve blood supply began in 1967, based on the procedures carried out by the Argentine René Gerónimo Favaloro at the Cleveland Clinic. Like many other aspects of cardiac surgery, this fact has also been overshadowed by historical inaccuracies, which have not been adequately clarified; so that the man who performed the first mammary-coronary anastomosis in humans has not been given the credit: Dr. William Polk Longmire Jr. Possibly, the coronary artery bypass began to spring from the seed in the expert hands of Longmire, in Los Angeles on a cold winter morning in 1958. A few years before Favaloro decided to continue watering it at the Cleveland Clinic. This article will hopefully serve as the first of the well-deserved tributes that the undisputed father of coronary surgery will receive this year

Keywords : William Polk Longmire Jr.; Surger; myocardial revascularization; history of Medicine.

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