<Ul> <Li> 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 Robert H. Goetz and the thoracic surgeon , Michael Rohman with the assistance of Jordan Haller and Ronald Dee . 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 . </Li> <Li> Soviet cardiac surgeon , Vasilii Kolesov , performed the first successful internal mammary artery -- coronary artery anastomosis in 1964 . However , Goetz has been cited by others , including Kolesov , as the first successful human coronary artery bypass . Goetz 's case has frequently been overlooked . Confusion has persisted for over 40 years and seems to be due to the absence of a full report and to misunderstanding about the type of anastomosis that was created . The anastomosis was intima - to - intima , with the vessels held together with circumferential ligatures over a specially designed metal ring . Kolesov did the first successful coronary bypass using a standard suture technique in 1964 , and over the next five years he performed 33 sutured and mechanically stapled anastomoses in Leningrad ( now St. Petersburg ) , USSR . </Li> <Li> René Favaloro , an Argentine surgeon , achieved a physiologic approach in the surgical management of coronary artery disease -- the bypass grafting procedure -- at the Cleveland Clinic in May 1967 . His new technique used a saphenous vein autograft to replace a stenotic segment of the right coronary artery . Later , he successfully used the saphenous vein as a bypassing channel , which has become the typical bypass graft technique we know today ; in the U.S. , this vessel is typically harvested endoscopically , using a technique known as endoscopic vessel harvesting ( EVH ) . </Li> <Li> Soon Dudley Johnson extended the bypass to include left coronary arterial systems . </Li> <Li> In 1968 , doctors Charles Bailey , Teruo Hirose and George Green used the internal mammary artery instead of the saphenous vein for the grafting . </Li> </Ul>
<Ul> <Li> 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 Robert H. Goetz and the thoracic surgeon , Michael Rohman with the assistance of Jordan Haller and Ronald Dee . 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 . </Li> <Li> Soviet cardiac surgeon , Vasilii Kolesov , performed the first successful internal mammary artery -- coronary artery anastomosis in 1964 . However , Goetz has been cited by others , including Kolesov , as the first successful human coronary artery bypass . Goetz 's case has frequently been overlooked . Confusion has persisted for over 40 years and seems to be due to the absence of a full report and to misunderstanding about the type of anastomosis that was created . The anastomosis was intima - to - intima , with the vessels held together with circumferential ligatures over a specially designed metal ring . Kolesov did the first successful coronary bypass using a standard suture technique in 1964 , and over the next five years he performed 33 sutured and mechanically stapled anastomoses in Leningrad ( now St. Petersburg ) , USSR . </Li> <Li> René Favaloro , an Argentine surgeon , achieved a physiologic approach in the surgical management of coronary artery disease -- the bypass grafting procedure -- at the Cleveland Clinic in May 1967 . His new technique used a saphenous vein autograft to replace a stenotic segment of the right coronary artery . Later , he successfully used the saphenous vein as a bypassing channel , which has become the typical bypass graft technique we know today ; in the U.S. , this vessel is typically harvested endoscopically , using a technique known as endoscopic vessel harvesting ( EVH ) . </Li> <Li> Soon Dudley Johnson extended the bypass to include left coronary arterial systems . </Li> <Li> In 1968 , doctors Charles Bailey , Teruo Hirose and George Green used the internal mammary artery instead of the saphenous vein for the grafting . </Li> </Ul>
who performed the first successful heart bypass operation in 1964
who performed the first successful heart bypass operation in 1964
Vasilii Kolesov
Vasilii Kolesov