Figure 2 (Small)

Figure 2. (Left) Nicolai Vladimirovich Eck (1849-1917) who performed the first vascular anastomosis in 1877 using silk sutures – a porto-caval shunt in a dog. (Centre) Erwin Payr (1871-1946) who in the 1890s used soluble magnesium stents (Right) to achieve vascular union.