ALT Figure 1. Special Instruments Designed for Coronary Endarterectomy, Showing, Below, an Elevator to Dissect the Thickened Intimal Core from the Media and Adventitia and, Above, a Loop Stripper to Dissect the Core Proximally and Distally from the Incision in the Coronary Artery.

ALT Figure 2. Treadmill Exercise Test in Case 1, Showing the Tracing Made Three Weeks after Operation.

ALT Figure 5. Technic of Operation, Showing Exposure of the Right Main Coronary and Left Anterior Descending Coronary Arteries, with Longitudinal Incisions into the Vessels, and Also Diagrammatic Cross-sections of a Normal Coronary Artery, an Artery Occluded by Atheromatous Intima and the Vessel after intimal Stripping.