A History of Vascular Surgery

Since the publication of the first edition 15 years ago, vascular surgery has been transformed into a new specialty incorporating endovascular surgery and techniques. These innovations are detailed in this much anticipated second edition. Like the first edition, this new edition of A History of Vascular Surgery paints engaging portraits of the surgeons and scientists whose ideas and practices underlie, and continue to influence, vascular surgery as we know it today. Written for the practitioner and student alike, the second edition provides an in-depth, accessible history of this rapidly changing field.

Foreword to first edition vii Foreword ix Preface xiv Part 1 Origins 1 Vascular surgeons of antiquity 3 2 Early vascular repairs and anastomoses 14 Part 2 The British are coming 3 William Hunter 31 4 John Hunter 35 5 Astley Cooper 41 Part 3 Divisions of vascular surgery 6 Development of the venous autograft 53 7 Evolution of aortic surgery 74 8 Operation on the carotid artery 89 Part 4 Yankee ingenuity 9 Valentine Mott 107 10 Rudolph Matas 112 11 The arterial prosthesis: Arthur Voorhees 119 Part 5 More divisions 12 Contributions from the battlefield 131 13 Venous surgery 147 14 Extra-anatomic bypass 161 Part 6 The French connection 15 Mathieu Jaboulay 171 16 Eugène Villard 173 17 Alexis Carrel 175 18 René Leriche 184 19 Jean Kunlin 188 20 Charles Dubost 192 21 Jacques Oudot 197 Part 7 Endovascular surgery 22 Charles Dotter: interventional radiologist 203 23 Thomas Fogarty 214 24 Juan Parodi 220 Index 224