1784 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
Three cases of mal-conformation of the heart.
Three cases of congenital heart disease recorded. Two plates are opposite pp. 417-18 of the journal.
GMN 2734.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4526
1784 UNDERWOOD, Michael (1737 – 1820)
A treatise on the diseases of children.
Underwood laid the foundation of modern pediatrics. His work was superior to anything that had previously appeared and remained the most important book on the subject for sixty years, passing through many editions. Th…
GMN 2734.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8101
1814 FARRE, John Richard (1775 – 1862)
Pathological researches. Essay I. On malformations of the human heart. [All published.]
The first monograph on congenital defects of the heart.
GMN 2740.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4585
1875 ROKITANSKY, Carl Freiherr von (1804 – 1878)
Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.
Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.
GMN 2778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4739
1877 DUROZIEZ, Paul Louis (1826 – 1897)
Du rétrécissement mitral pur.
First description of congenital mitral stenosis, “Duroziez’s disease.”
GMN 2780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4743
1882 –1883 WINSLOW, Ralph (1868 – 1924)
"A study of the malformations, variations, and anomalies of the circulatory apparatus in man," with a brief consideration of some of the principles governing their production.
A pioneering study of the embryology of the cardiovascular system and its relationship to congenital heart disease.
GMN 11737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13938
1888 FALLOT, Étienne Louis Arthur (1850 – 1911)
Contribution à l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleu (cyanose cardiaque).
The “tetralogy of Fallot.” He gave an important, but not the first, account of this condition (see Nos. 2726.1 & 2761). Abstract translation in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 689-90.
GMN 2792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3401
1897 EISENMENGER, Victor (1864 – 1932)
Die angeborenen Defecte der Kammerscheidewand des Herzens.
“Riding aorta”, patent interventricular septum and right ventricular enlargement – the “Eisenmenger syndrome”.
GMN 2806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3444
1898 VIERORDT, Karl Hermann (1853 – 1943)
Die angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.
The first systematic treatise on congenital heart defects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13917
1903 BONNET, L. M.
Sur la lésion dite sténose congénitale de l’aorte dans la région de l’isthme.
Distinction of infantile and adult types of coarctation of the aorta.
GMN 2814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3483
1907 MUNRO, John Cummings (1858 – 1910)
Ligation of the ductus arteriosus.
Munro was first to suggest the feasibility of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus.
GMN 3025.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5492
1913 DOYEN, Eugène-Louis (1859 – 1916)
Chirurgie des malformations congénitales ou acquises du coeur.
First attempt at surgical relief of valvular disease of the heart (congenital pulmonary stenosis). Experimental valvotomy.
GMN 3028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5511
1927 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); MCCRAE, Thomas (1870 – 1935)
Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.
GMN 2856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3647
1928 ROESLER, Hugo (1899 – 1961)
Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.
Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.
GMN 2856.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3649
1936 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.
GMN 2865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4156
1939 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988); HUBBARD, John Perry (1903 – 1990)
Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.
One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.
GMN 3039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3459
1945 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)
The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.
The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…
GMN 3043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3475
1945 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988)
Surgical correction for coarctation of the aorta.
Resection of coarctation and direct anastomosis of remaining ends. See also his report of 60 cases in J. Amer.med.Assoc.,1949, 139,285-92.
GMN 3044.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3490
1945 BRANNON, Emmett S.; WARREN, James Vaughn (1915 – 1990); WEENS, H. Stephen
Atrial septal defect: Study of hemodynamics by the technique of right heart catheterization.
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.
GMN 10653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12846
1946 POTTS, Willis John (1895 – 1968); ET AL
Anastomosis of the aorta to a pulmonary artery. Certain types in congenital heart disease.
With S. Smith and S. Gibson.
GMN 3045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3495
1947 TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)
Congenital malformations of the heart.
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…
GMN 2878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4208
1948 BROCK, Russell Claude (1903 – 1980)
Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.
"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…
GMN 3046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3497
1950 WOOD, Paul Hamilton (1907 – 1962)
Congenital heart disease.
A new classification proposed.
GMN 2882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4232
1954 WARDEN, Herbert Edgar (1920 – 2002); LILLEHEI, Clarence Walton (1918 – 1999); ET AL
Controlled cross circulation for open intracardiac surgery; physiologic studies and results of creation and closure of ventricular septal defects.
Warden and colleagues undertook the first repair of various cardiac anomalies. With M. Cohen, and R.C. Read.
GMN 3047.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3568
