1671 –1672 STENO, Nicolas [Niels Steensen, Nicholaus Stenonis] (1638 – 1686)

Embryo monstro affinis Parisiis dissectus.

First known description of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Reprinted in his Opera philosophica, ed. W. Maar, Vol. 2, Copenhagen, V. Tryde, 1910, pp. 49-53. For translation see Proc. Mayo Clin., 1948, 23, 317.

GMN 2726.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4468

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

1788 BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)

An account of a remarkable transportation of the viscera.

Baillie recorded a case of congenital dextrocardia with complete situs inversus viscerum. Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 257-62.

GMN 2280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2896

1793 BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)

The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body.

Baillie was a nephew and pupil of William Hunter. The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as an independent science. See also Nos. 2736, 3167.1. Baillie wa…

GMN 2281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2898

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

1858 PEACOCK, Thomas Bevill (1812 – 1882)

On malformations, etc., of the human heart.

Includes an account of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Peacock’s book was “the first comprehensive study covering the whole field” (Maude Abbott). Reprinted, Boston, Mass., 1973.

GMN 2761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4681

1866 EBSTEIN, Wilhelm (1836 – 1912)

Ueber einen sehr seltenen Fall von Insufficienz der Valvula tricuspidalis, bedingt durch eine angeborene hochgradige Missbildung derselben.

“Ebstein’s anomaly,” a congenital abnormality of the tricuspid valve. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol, 1968, 22, 867-72.

GMN 2764.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4693

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

1879 ROGER, Henri-Louis (1809 – 1891)

Recherches cliniques sur la communication congénitales des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intervenniculare.

Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency (“maladie de Roger”), demonstrating the presence of a murmur in this condition. This is sometimes called “Roger’s murmur”, although …

GMN 2782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3376

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

1921 LAUBRY, Charles (1872 – 1960)

Traité des maladies congenitales du coeur.

GMN 11677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13878

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

1937 CASTELLANOS, Agustin Walfredo (1902 – 2000); ET AL

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

GMN 11568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13767

1937 HEINRICH, Hahne

Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.

GMN 12352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14576

1945 CRAFOORD, Clarence (1899 – 1984); NYLIN, Karl Gustav Vilhelm (1892 – 1961)

Congenital coarctation of the aorta and its surgical treatment.

Crafoord and Gross (No. 3044.1) pioneered this basic operation in cardiac and pediatric surgery.

GMN 3044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3484

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 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

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

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

GMN 11766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13967

1949 TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986); BING, Richard John (1909 – 2010)

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

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]

GMN 12289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14510

1950 WOOD, Paul Hamilton (1907 – 1962)

Congenital heart disease.

A new classification proposed.

GMN 2882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4232

1951 GORLIN, Richard (1926 – 1997); GORLIN, S. G.

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

GMN 12238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14452

1955 LILLEHEI, Clarence Walton (1918 – 1999)

Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.

Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.

GMN 3047.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3570

1965 EDWARDS, Jesse Efrem (1911 – 2008); NEUFELD, Henry N. (1923 – 1986); ET AL

Congenital heart disease: Correlation of pathologic anatomy and angiography. 2 vols.

With Lewis Carey and Richard Lester.

GMN 11587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13786

1966 RASHKIND, William J. (1922 – 1986); MILLER, William W.

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.

GMN 12369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14593

1974 TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986); HENRY, Walter L.; MARON, Barry Joel; ET AL

Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.

Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.

GMN 12245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14460

1982 RASHKIND, William J. (1922 – 1986)

Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.

GMN 12368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14592

1995 NEILL, Catherine Annie (1921 – 2006); CLARK, Edward B.

The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.

A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.

GMN 12364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14588