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Rene Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon known for advancing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. In 1967, he used a segment of saphenous vein to bypass an obstructed coronary artery, helping establish a reproducible operation for restoring blood flow to the heart muscle. He...
F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established selective coronary angiography. In 1958, contrast material was inadvertently injected directly into a coronary artery during catheterization; after observing that the patient survived, S...
Claude Beck was an American cardiac surgeon associated with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals in Cleveland. In 1947, he performed the first successful defibrillation of a human heart during surgery, using electrical shocks to restore an effective rhythm after ventricular fibri...
