Historical Background Savory was the first to describe a patient with signs and symptoms suggesting occlusive disease involving the aortic arch vessels. Nearly 20 years later, in 1875, Broadbent chronicled…
Historical Background Surgical approaches to the aortic arch vessels had been described in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1958 DeBakey and associates described the first successful surgical…
Historical Background Shimizu and Sano first described surgical repair of an atherosclerotic aortic arch branch vessel lesion in 1951. Initially, open surgical repair was performed via a transthoracic approach, but…
Historical Background Balloon angioplasty of the carotid artery was first described in the late 1970s as an intervention for carotid artery stenosis. It was proposed as an alternative to carotid…
Historical Background Reigner performed the first carotid body tumor (CBT) resection in 1880, though the patient did not survive. In 1889 Albert became the first to excise a CBT without…
Historical Background Although Carrea, Molins, and Murphy performed a successful carotid resection in 1951 and DeBakey completed a successful carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in 1953, the potential benefit of surgical treatment…
Historical Background Conventional carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is an excellent and time-tested technique; however, eversion CEA is quicker to perform, avoids insertion of prosthetic material, and is associated with postoperative morbidity…
Historical Background Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, angiographic procedures required surgical exposure with placement of a blunt metal trocar and were often cumbersome and dangerous. A percutaneous approach was…
Historical Background The age of endovascular therapy began with Dr. Sven Seldinger’s publication in 1953 of his technique for vascular access over a wire. The field expanded rapidly with subsequent…
Historical Background Angioplasty was first used by Dotter and Judkins in 1964 for the treatment of peripheral vascular lesions using rigid intravascular dilators. Although relatively unnoticed in the United States,…
