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914 entries match Cardiology & Blood [C14 / C15]
1962
#3047.17
Homograft replacement of the aortic valve.
Homograft valve placed below coronary orifice, a single page report. The first complete report on the "Ross procedure" was "Homotransplantation of the aortic valve in the subcoronary posittion," J. thorac. cardiovasc.…
1962
#2883.5
New method for terminating cardiac arrythmias; use of synchronized capacitor discharge.
Use of transthoracic direct current countershock of very short duration to avoid the vulnerable period in the cardiac cycle.
1963
#3108.7
Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.
1963
#2883.6
Preliminary studies of an acute coronary care area.
Hughes is credited with inventing the coronary care unit, and the "crash cart"
1963
#3020.2
A method for extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi.
Introduction of the balloon catheter in arterial embolectomy. With J. J. Cranley, R. J. Krause, E. S. Strasser and C. D. Hafner.
1963
#12217
The significance of late systolic murmurs and mid-late systolic clicks.
See also J. B. Barlow, W.A. Pocock P. Marchand, M. Denny, "The significance of late systolic murmurs," Am Heart J., 66 (1963) 443- 452 Barlow revolutionized thinking about the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation w…
1963
#12259
"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.
"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…
1964
#1588.1
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
1964
#1931.5
A new adrenergic beta-receptor antagonist.
Development of Propranolol, the first beta-blocker effectively used in the treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension. R. G. Shanks, L. H. Smith and A. C. Dornhorst. In 1988 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
1964
#3108.8
Successful prevention of experimental Rh sensitization in man with an anti-Rh gamma2-globulin antibody preparation.
With J. G. Gorman and W. Pollack.
1964
#3161.1
The history of electrocardiography.
Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
1964
#2883.7
The physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias.
1964
#2924.4
Transluminal treatment of arterioschlerotic obstruction; description of a new technic and a preliminary report of its application.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
1964
#11672
Parasites of the human heart.
1964
#12251
Clinical observations using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP continuous electrocardiographic system. Tentative standards and typical patterns.
Documentation of the value of the Holter monitor in clinical work. Abstract "We have described characteristic patterns observed using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP system for recording continuous electrocardiograms on…
1965
#11587
Congenital heart disease: Correlation of pathologic anatomy and angiography. 2 vols.
With Lewis Carey and Richard Lester.
1966
#3155.4
Man’s haemoglobins: including the haemoglobinopathies and their investigation.
Explains the current distribution of sickling throughout the world.
1966
#12369
Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy. A palliative approach to complete transposition of the great arteries.
Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy to treat transposition of the great vessels.
1966
#14342
The life of William Harvey.
1967
#12242
Clinical experiences with a new implantable demand pacemaker.
Harken and colleagues reported "the first clinical use of an implantable noncompetitive pacer" (Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts. Baltimore, 2001, 134.) Berkovits, an engineer working for Medtronic, was an inventor of …
1968
#3047.21
Saphenous vein autograft replacement of severe segmental coronary artery occlusion: Operative technique.
First report on bypass of a human coronary artery. See No. 3047.25. Two years later Favoloro published a monograph on the topic: Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis (Baltimore, 1970). Digital facsimile fro…
1968
#3108.9
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
1968
#6916
Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.
Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecule…
1968
#10213
The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…
1968
#12282
Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…
1969
#2883.8
Catheter technique for recording His bundle activity in man.
Scherlag was the first person to consistently record atrial ventricular bundle ("His bundle") potentials, which served as one of the cornerstones of clinical electrophysiology. With 5 co-authors.
1970
#3161.3
The history of coronary heart disease.
A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.
1970
#2883.9
Catheterization of the heart in man with use of a flow-directed balloon-tipped catheter.
The Swan-Ganz balloon flotation catheter, a flow-guided balloon-tipped catheter of flexible construction, which enabled “placement without associated ventricular arrhythmias, prompt and reliable passage to the pulmona…
1970
#11564
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
1971
#12370
International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.
Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.
1972
#12233
Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.
Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).
1973
#1588.13
The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
1973
#3047.25
Aortocoronary bypass with saphenous vein graft: seven year follow-up.
"Probably the first successful saphenous bypass graft was by Edward Garrett (1964), whilst he was working with DeBakey. He performed the bypass graft in order to wean a patient from cardiopulmonary bypass, and the lon…
1973
#14089
Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.
1974
#2028.43
Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.
Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.
1974
#3161.4
Einführung in die Geschichte der Haematologie.
Thirteen contributions edited by Boroviczény, H. Schipperges, and E. Seidler. Includes chronological table of events in the history of medicine and a bibliography.
1974
#11553
Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.
A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.
1974
#12245
Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.
Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.
1974
#12246
A sector scanner for real time two-dimensional echocardiography.
Abstract "During the past several years one-dimensional pulse-echo ultrasound techniques have proven extremely useful in cardiac diagnosis. A one-dimensional system, however, only visualizes structures lying along a s…
1974
#12718
Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.
The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…
1975
#1931.7
Thromboxanes: a new group of biologically active compounds derived from prostaglandin endoperoxides.
With J. Stevenson and B. Samuelsson.
1975
#12232
Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.
1976
#11569
Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.
1976
#11888
The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.
The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…
1977
#3161.41
The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.
1977
#3161.42
The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.
Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …
1977
#12338
Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.
1978
#12243
Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…
1979
#12239
Nonoperative dilatation of coronary-artery stenosis: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
Grüntzig developed the first successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. Abstract "In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a catheter system is introduced through a systemic ar…
1980
#1588.17