Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone
Sewing blood vessels together
Recorded year1902
Alexis Carrel's triangulation stitch joins blood vessels end to end without clots, making transplants and bypass operations possible.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.