Resection or exclusion of scars following a myocardial infarction on the left anterior descending artery territory started even before the beginning of the modern era of cardiac surgery. Many techniques were developed, but there is still confusion on who did what. The original techniques underwent modifications that brought to a variety of apparently new procedures that, however, were only a “revisitation” of what described before. In some case, old techniques were reproposed and renamed, without giving credit to the surgeon that was the original designer. Herein we try to describe which are the seminal procedures and some of the most important modifications, respecting however the merit of who first communicated the procedure to the scientific world.

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缺血性心肌病左心室减容技术的历史评价：谁做了什么？

甚至在现代心脏手术时代开始之前，左前降支心肌梗塞后的疤痕切除或排除就已经开始了。开发了许多技术，但仍然对谁做了什么感到困惑。最初的技术经过修改，带来了各种明显的新程序，然而，这些只是对之前描述的内容的“重新审视”。在某些情况下，旧技术被重新提出并重新命名，而没有将原始设计者的外科医生归功于。在这里，我们试图描述哪些是开创性的程序和一些最重要的修改，但尊重首先将程序传达给科学界的人的优点。