1964 DOTTER, Charles Theodore (1920 – 1985); JUDKINS, Melvin Paul (1922 – 1985)
Transluminal treatment of arterioschlerotic obstruction; description of a new technic and a preliminary report of its application.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
GMN 2924.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4931
1964 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); BRESLAU, Roger C.
Parasites of the human heart.
GMN 11672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13873
1967 HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993); MATLOFF, Jack Morton (1933 – 2015); BERKOVITS, Barouh (1926 – 2012); ET AL
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 …
GMN 12242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14456
1968 FAVALORO, René Gerónimo (1923 – 2000)
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…
GMN 3047.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3640
1968 CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000); SALTIN, Bengt (1935 – 2014); BLOMQVIST, Gunnar; MITCHELL, Jere H.; JOHNSON, R. L. Jr.; WILDENTHAL, Kern
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…
GMN 12282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14503
1973 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); GARRETT, H. Edward (1926 – 1996); DENNIS, Edward W. (1923 – 1975); ET AL
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…
GMN 3047.25 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3648
1974 KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019); MATSUYA, Shoji; YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi
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…
GMN 12718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14964
1979 SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000); GRÜNTZIG, Andreas Roland (1939 – 1985); SIEGENTHALER, Walter E. (1923 – 2010)
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…
GMN 12239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14453
1980 JARCHO, Saul Wallenstein (1906 – 2000)
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
GMN 3161.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4109
1980 DAWBER, Thomas Royle "Roy" (1913 – 2005)
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
GMN 11579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13778
1980 MIROWSKI, Michael (1924 – 1990); MOWER, Morton M. (1933 – ); WATKINS, Levi Jr. (1944 – 2015); ET AL
Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.
First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.
GMN 12270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14487
1986 LAUFMAN, Harold (1912 – 2010)
The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.
Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …
GMN 12356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14580
1987 GLAGOV, Seymour (1925 – 2008); ET AL
Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.
"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after …
GMN 12237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14451
1992 ANDERSEN, Henning Rud; KNUDSEN, L. L.; HASENKAM, J. M.
Transluminal implantation of artificial heart valves. Description of a new expandable aortic valve and initial results with implantation by catheter technique in closed chest pigs.
Andersen and colleagues invented percutaneous aortic valve replacement (PAVR), also known as percutaneous aortic valve implantation (PAVI), transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or transcatheter aortic valve …
GMN 13893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16185
1996 BOOLELL, Mau; OSTERLOH, Ian; ET AL
Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.
Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…
GMN 8872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11050
1997 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
GMN 12360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14584
1997 POSTEL-VINAY, Nicholas
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
GMN 12367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14591
1998 BLAUFOX, M. Donald; NAQVI, Nasir H.
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
GMN 11591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13790
2000 FURMAN, Seymour (1931 – 2006); GREATBATCH, Wilson (1919 – 2011)
The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.
GMN 7995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10171
2001 JEFFREY, Kirk
Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.
GMN 7191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9358
2001 MICHAELS, Leon
The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.
GMN 12361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14585
2006 HANDLER, Clive; CLEMAN, Michael W.
Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.
GMN 12345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14569
2007 SIKRI, Nikhil; BARDIA, Amit
A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.
A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14500
2017 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
GMN 12372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14597
2019 ZIMMERMANN, Michael B.; SIMMERMAN-KOGADEEVA, Maria; WEGMANN, Rebekka; ET AL
Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…
GMN 11482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13681
