7 ‘Strong and Peculiar Symptoms’

^fn1 In many cases it was highly effective. The operation is still sometimes performed today for patients with severe angina which cannot be treated by any other method.

^fn2 Donald Effler is known to have read this article, so it is likely that Favaloro and his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic were aware of Kolesov’s work when they embarked on their historic series of operations later that year.