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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1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
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Surgical specialties focus on manually operative and instrumental techniques to treat disease.
2. Vascular Surgery (Wikipedia)
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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.
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The most notable historic figure in vascular surgery is the 1912 Nobel Prize winning surgeon, Alexis Carrel for his techniques used to suture vessels.
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