When doctors first look at sutureless anastomosis devices created by new technologies, the most frequent comment is how amazingly easy it is to create a vascular anastomosis and, as a direct consequence, they believe anybody could play the role of the cardiovascular surgeon. Pessimistic cardiovascular surgeons, on their side, think that creating a machine capable of perfectly reproducing their core activity, which consists in making anastomosis, will kill their profession. Actually, no medical specialty’s demise has been more often predicted and, at the same time, more greatly exaggerated than that of cardiovascular surgery. According to its detractors, beginning in the late 1980s with the angioplasty boom, continuing in the mid-1990s with the introduction of bare metal stents, and then more recently with the introduction of drug-eluting stents, cardiovascular surgery has been on life support for nearly 15 years.
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