1908 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.
Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).
GMN 3012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5386
1911 MOSNY, Ernest (1861 – 1918); DUMONT, J
Embolie fémorale au cours d’un rétrécissement mitral pur. Arteriotomie. Guérison.
First successful embolectomy; operation carried out by G. Labey, November 16, 1911.
GMN 3013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5394
1913 KEY, Einar Samuel Henrik (1872 – 1954)
Ein Fall operierter Embolie der Arteria femoralis.
Key performed his first successful embolectomy on December 4, 1912, and reported it to a meeting of the Svenska Läkaresällskapet on January 28, 1913. See also his review in Ergebn. Chir. Orthop.,1929, 22,1-94.
GMN 3014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5397
1913 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931)
Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.
Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.
GMN 3015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5405
1925 JEFFERSON, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961)
Report of a successful case of embolectomy.
First successful embolectomy in Britain.
GMN 3017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5410
1929 DUCUING, Jean (1889 – )
Phlébites, thromboses et embolies post-opératoires.
GMN 3018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5412
1947 SANTOS, João Alfonso Cid dos (1907 – 1975)
Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.
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 …
GMN 3019.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5421
1963 FOGARTY, Thomas J. (1934 – )
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.
GMN 3020.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5435
