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Vineberg procedure

noun Vine·berg procedure \ˈvīn-ˌbərg-\

Medical Definition of VINEBERG PROCEDURE

:  surgical implantation of an internal thoracic artery into the myocardium

Biographical Note for VINEBERG PROCEDURE

Vineberg, Arthur Martin (1903–1988), Canadian surgeon. Vineberg served as director of cardiothoracic surgery at one Montreal hospital and as a consultant in cardiac surgery at several others. In 1945 he began research on the revascularization of the myocardium for the treatment of coronary insufficiency.

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