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914 entries match Cardiology & Blood [C14 / C15]

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1945

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

COOMBS, Robert Royston Amos ( (1921 – 2006) & et al.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 255-66.

1945

#3105

Conglutination test for Rh sensitization.

WIENER, Alexander Solomon (1907 – 1976)

Conglutination test.

1945

#3150

Observations of the anti-anemic properties of synthetic folic acid.

SPIES, Tom Douglas (1902 – 1960) & et al.

Hemopoietic properties of folic acid reported. With C. F. Vilter, M. B. Koch, and M. H. Caldwell.

1945

#2900

Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.

RAAB, Wilhelm (1895 – 1970)

1945

#10653

Atrial septal defect: Study of hemodynamics by the technique of right heart catheterization.

BRANNON, Emmett S. WARREN, James Vaughn (1915 – 1990) WEENS, H. Stephen

The first description of the use of a cardiac catheter as a diagnostic tool, in this case a congenital heart defect. The authors worked in the laboratory of Eugene Stead, Jr. at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.

1945

#11687

Les tumeurs et les polypes du coeur: Étude anatomo-clinique.

MAHAIM, Ivan (1897 – 1965)

A classical monograph on heart tumors with 1298 references on these relatively rare tumors.

1946

#3045

Anastomosis of the aorta to a pulmonary artery. Certain types in congenital heart disease.

POTTS, Willis John (1895 – 1968) & et al.

With S. Smith and S. Gibson.

1946

#3106

Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.

PATERSON, Edith (1900 – 1995) & et al.

Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.

1946

#3151

The structure and synthesis of liver. L. casei factor.

ANGIER, Robert Crane (1917 – )

Isolation, determination of structure, and final synthesis of folic acid.

1946

#3152

Observations on the effect of massive doses of iron given intravenously to patients with hypochromic anemia.

GOETSCH, Anne Carlton Tompkins (1917 – 2003) & et al.

1947

#912.5

The coagulation of blood. Investigations on a new clotting factor.

OWREN, Paul Arnor (1905 – 1990)

Discovery of the Factor V. Preliminary account in Proc. Norwegian Acad. Sci., 1941, 17, 21.

1947

#913

A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.

WALSH, Robert John (1917 – 1983) MONTGOMERY, Carmel M.

S blood-group antigen.

1947

#195

The use of blood groups in anthropology.

MOURANT, Arthur Ernest (1904 – 1994)
MOURANT, Arthur Ernest (1904 – 1994)

1947

#3107

Action hypoprothrombinémiante (anti-K) de la phényl-indanedione étudiée expérimentalement chez le lapin. Son application chez l’homme.

SOULIER, Jean Pierre (1913 – 2003)
SOULIER, Jean Pierre (1913 – 2003) GUEGUEN, Jean

Introduction of phenylindanedione.

1947

#3153

Intravenous administration of iron.

NISSIM, Joseph Abraham

1947

#2876

Electrokymograph for recording heart motion, improved type.

HENNY, George Christian (1899 – 1988) & et al.

With B. R. Boone and W. E. Chamberlain.

1947

#2877

Circulatory failure studied by means of venous catheterization.

MCMICHAEL, Sir John (1904 – 1993)
MCMICHAEL, Sir John (1904 – 1993)

1947

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

1947

#2878.1

Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.

BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971) PRITCHARD, Walter Herbert (1910 – 1982) & et al.

The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.

1947

#3019.1

Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.

SANTOS, João Alfonso Cid dos (1907 – 1975)

In 1946 Santos removed a thrombus and atheroma plaque from an artery in order to unblock it, and, using the knowledge acquired from Gordon Murray, placed the patient on heparin in order to avoid re-thrombosis. Called …

1948

#1092

Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.

SMITH, Ernest Lester (1904 – 1992)

Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.

1948

#3046

Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.

BROCK, Russell Claude (1903 – 1980)
BROCK, Russell Claude (1903 – 1980)

"Brock performed the first successful valvotomies for isolated pulmonary stenosis in 1948. He gained access to the blood-filled beating heart through a small incision in the right ventricle through which he passed a v…

1948

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993) ZARSKY, Leona Norman (1923 – 2013) & et al.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

1948

#3046.2

Surgery of pulmonary stenosis. A case in which the pulmonary valve was successfully divided.

SELLORS, Sir Thomas Homes (1902 – 1987)

Operation Dec. 4, 1947.

1948

#3047

A venous shunt for marked mitral stenosis.

BLAND, Edward Franklin (1901 – 1992) SWEET, Richard Harwood (1901 – 1962)

First pulmonary-azygos shunt operation for relief of mitral stenosis. Two further patients were operated upon later the same year; all three are reported in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1949, 140, 1259. A similar procedure was …

1948

#3107.1

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

DIAMOND, Louis Klein (1902 – 1999)

Exchange transfusion.

1948

#3107.2

The reduction of methaemoglobin in red blood cells and studies on the cause of idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia.

GIBSON, Quentin Howieson (1918 – 2011)

Cause of hereditary methemoglobinemia elucidated.

1948

#3108

Klinische Erfahrungen mit einem neuen Präparat der Cumarinreihe.

REINIS, Z KUBIK, Mirko

Introduction of ethyl biscoumacetate (“tromexan”).

1948

#3154

Activity of vitaminB12 in Addisonian pernicious anemia.

WEST, Randolph (1890 – )

First demonstration of the effectiveness of vitamin B12 in pernicious anemia.

1948

#3160

A history of the heart and circulation.

WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972) DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – )

1948

#2879

Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.

BRODÉN, Bror Leonhardt Johan (1910 – ) & et al.

With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.

1948

#2880

Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis. Report to the Medical Research Council on 269 patients treated in 14 centres appointed by the Penicillin Clinical Trials Committee.

CHRISTIE, Ronald Victor (1902 – 1986)

1948

#2993

Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.

POPPE, John Karl (1911 – 2012)

1948

#3020

Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.

WRIGHT, Irving Sherwood (1901 – 1997) & et al.

With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.

1948

#1929.3

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993)
PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993) ZAIMIS, Eleanor (1915 – 1982)

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

1948

#11766

Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.

BULBULIAN, Arthur H. (1900 – 1996) DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – ) EDWARDS, Jesse Efrem (1911 – 2008) PARKER, Robert L. BURCHELL, Howard Bertram (1908 – 2009) ROGERS, H. Milton

An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.

1948

#12359

Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.

MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008) DOW, J. W. JONES, Thomas Duckett (1899 – 1954)

Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…

1949

#4509

The effects of the adrenal cortical hormone 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone (compound E) on the acute phase of rheumatic fever: preliminary report.

HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965)
HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965) KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Compound E (cortisone) introduced in the treatment of rheumatic fever. With C. H. Slocumb, A. R. Barnes, H. L. Smith, H. F. Polley.

1949

#3154.1

Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.

PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010) SINGER, Seymour Jonathan (1924 – 2017) WELLS, Ibert C. (1921 – 2011)

First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.

1949

#3154.2

The inheritance of sickle cell anemia.

NEEL, James Van Gundia (1915 – 2000)

Genetic evidence that sickle-cell disease is inherited in a simple Mendelian manner.

1949

#3155

Vitamin B12 in pernicious anaemia: parenteral administration.

UNGLEY, Charles Cady (1902 – 1958)

1949

#2924.1

Le traitement de l’artérite oblitérante parla greffe veineuse.

KUNLIN, Jean (1904 – 1991)

Kunlin, an associate of R. Leriche, first reported the use of a bypass venous graft for femoropopliteal occlusive arterial disease.

1949

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993)
PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993) ZAIMIS, Eleanor (1915 – 1982)

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1949

#10654

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy).

BAILEY, Charles Philamore (1910 – 1993)

Pioneering work in mitral valve surgery.

1949

#12289

Complete transposition of the aorta and a levoposition of the pulmonary artery; clinical, physiological, and pathological findings.

TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986) BING, Richard John (1909 – 2010)

Taussig–Bing syndrome, a cyanotic congenital heart defect[1] in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD).[2]

1950

#2028.1

Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.

SMITH, Audrey Ursula (1915 – 1981)

Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.

1950

#2881

Mechanism of the auricular arrythmias.

PRINZMETAL, Myron (1908 – 1987) & et al.

With E. Corday, I. C. Brill, A. L. Seller, R. W. Oblath, W. A. Flieg, and H. E. Kruger.

1950

#2882

Congenital heart disease.

WOOD, Paul Hamilton (1907 – 1962)

A new classification proposed.

1951

#3047.2

Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.

HUFNAGEL, Charles Anthony (1916 – 1989)
HUFNAGEL, Charles Anthony (1916 – 1989)

Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.

1951

#2993.1

A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.

DUBOST, Charles (1914 – 1991) & et al.

First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.