1907-1910

In Paris, Alexis Carrel’s dog experiment with aortic homografts (including tubes of dissolving magnesium and even caramel) to replace section of aortic artery lay foundation for work of Arthur Voorhees in late 1940s with different type of cloth tubes, which were intended to function as lattices for formation of new blood vessels. Then, in 1954, Michael Debakey performed first human implantation of his own home-made Dacron graft (Morris, loc 1385ff). Invention of Gore-Tex in 1970s provided alternative to Dacron.