First CABG

[willsie01]

I’m seeing conflicting information about the history of CABG. Really all I want know I guess is how old a procedure is it. Seems like it can’t bd attributed to the work of 1 surgeon.

[Dolphin14]

In the US multiple md were working on it in the 1960's

[stevejb1810]

Research was going on in the early 1950s but the first successful CABG in humans is generally regarded as being May 2nd, 1960. So it’s been around for the better part of 60 years. Somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 CABG procedures are performed each your in the UK (it’s somewhere around 500,000 per annum in the US) - it is a remarkably common procedure.

[Dolphin14]

The first CABG was preformed in the 1960's in the Soviet Union by

Dr Vasillii Kolesov. It was down played by the Western World.

[willsie01 in reply to Dolphin14]

This was the info that led to my post as I had seen conflicting data suggesting it was the Americans

[Dolphin14 in reply to willsie01]

This was just confirmed by a cardiac surgeon in the US so I though I would share.