Origin Alexis Carrel, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912, is regarded as the most notable early figure in vascular surgery for developing techniques to suture blood vessels together, work that also made organ transplantation surgically possible.
Vascular surgery is the surgical specialty in which diseases of the arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels are managed by medical therapy, minimally invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction, distinct from cardiac surgery on the heart itself. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own accountAlexis Carrel, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912, is regarded as the most notable early figure in vascular surgery for developing techniques to suture blood vessels together, work that also made organ transplantation surgically possible. 2 Classification
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Source Astley Cooper (Wikipedia)
Source John Bell (surgeon) (source article)
Source John Homans (source article)
Source Kenneth Ouriel (source article)
Source Nikolai Korotkov (source article)
Source Peter Morris (surgeon) (source article)
Source René Leriche (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
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Surgical specialties focus on manually operative and instrumental techniques to treat disease.
2. Vascular Surgery (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction.
History section
The most notable historic figure in vascular surgery is the 1912 Nobel Prize winning surgeon, Alexis Carrel for his techniques used to suture vessels.
View the Source René Leriche (Wikipedia)
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was a French vascular surgeon and physiologist.
Peter Morris (surgeon) (source article)
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His clinical interests have been in transplantation and vascular surgery.
Astley Cooper (Wikipedia)
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In the field of vascular surgery and cerebral circulation, Cooper was the first to demonstrate experimentally
John Homans (source article)
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Homans was a founding member of the Society for Vascular Surgery
Kenneth Ouriel (source article)
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is a vascular surgeon and medical researcher.
Nikolai Korotkov (source article)
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a pioneer of 20th-century vascular surgery
John Bell (surgeon) (source article)
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a founder of the modern surgery of the vascular system
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