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
1945 RAAB, Wilhelm (1895 – 1970)
Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.
GMN 2900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4847
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
1945 MAHAIM, Ivan (1897 – 1965)
Les tumeurs et les polypes du coeur: Étude anatomo-clinique.
A classical monograph on heart tumors with 1298 references on these relatively rare tumors.
GMN 11687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13888
1947 HENNY, George Christian (1899 – 1988); ET AL
Electrokymograph for recording heart motion, improved type.
With B. R. Boone and W. E. Chamberlain.
GMN 2876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4202
1947 MCMICHAEL, Sir John (1904 – 1993)
Circulatory failure studied by means of venous catheterization.
GMN 2877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4205
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
1947 BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971); PRITCHARD, Walter Herbert (1910 – 1982); ET AL
Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.
The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.
GMN 2878.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4214
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
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
1948 HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993); ZARSKY, Leona Norman (1923 – 2013); ET AL
The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.
Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…
GMN 3046.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3527
1948 SELLORS, Sir Thomas Homes (1902 – 1987)
Surgery of pulmonary stenosis. A case in which the pulmonary valve was successfully divided.
Operation Dec. 4, 1947.
GMN 3046.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3532
1948 BLAND, Edward Franklin (1901 – 1992); SWEET, Richard Harwood (1901 – 1962)
A venous shunt for marked mitral stenosis.
First pulmonary-azygos shunt operation for relief of mitral stenosis. Two further patients were operated upon later the same year; all three are reported in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1949, 140, 1259. A similar procedure was …
GMN 3047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3537
1948 WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972); DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – )
A history of the heart and circulation.
GMN 3160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4096
1948 BRODÉN, Bror Leonhardt Johan (1910 – ); ET AL
Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.
With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.
GMN 2879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4220
1948 CHRISTIE, Ronald Victor (1902 – 1986)
Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis. Report to the Medical Research Council on 269 patients treated in 14 centres appointed by the Penicillin Clinical Trials Committee.
GMN 2880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4224
1948 POPPE, John Karl (1911 – 2012)
Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.
GMN 2993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5273
1948 WRIGHT, Irving Sherwood (1901 – 1997); ET AL
Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.
With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.
GMN 3020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5425
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
1948 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008); DOW, J. W.; JONES, Thomas Duckett (1899 – 1954)
Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.
Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…
GMN 12359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14583
1949 KUNLIN, Jean (1904 – 1991)
Le traitement de l’artérite oblitérante parla greffe veineuse.
Kunlin, an associate of R. Leriche, first reported the use of a bypass venous graft for femoropopliteal occlusive arterial disease.
GMN 2924.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4925
1949 BAILEY, Charles Philamore (1910 – 1993)
The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy).
Pioneering work in mitral valve surgery.
GMN 10654 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12847
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 PRINZMETAL, Myron (1908 – 1987); ET AL
Mechanism of the auricular arrythmias.
With E. Corday, I. C. Brill, A. L. Seller, R. W. Oblath, W. A. Flieg, and H. E. Kruger.
GMN 2881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4228
1950 WOOD, Paul Hamilton (1907 – 1962)
Congenital heart disease.
A new classification proposed.
GMN 2882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4232
1951 HUFNAGEL, Charles Anthony (1916 – 1989)
Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.
Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.
GMN 3047.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3551
1951 DUBOST, Charles (1914 – 1991); ET AL
A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.
First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.
GMN 2993.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5279
1951 OUDOT, Jacques (1913 – 1953)
La greffe vasculaire dans les thromboses du carrefour aortique.
Arterial homograft on aorta.
GMN 3020.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5430
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
1951 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)
The ancient art of feeling the pulse.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14632
1952 VOORHEES, Arthur Jr. (1921 – 1992); ET AL
The use of tubes constructed from Vinyon “N” cloth in bridging arterial defects.
Introduction of plastic material to repair arterial defects. Voorhees later abandoned this material in favour of Dacron. With A. Jaretzki and A. W. Blakemore.
GMN 3047.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3556
1952 ZOLL, Paul Maurice (1911 – 1999)
Resuscitation of the heart in ventricular standstill by external electric stimulation.
External cardiac pacemaker. "The medical world took notice when Zoll announced in 1952 that he had successfully kept a patient alive through numerous episodes of ventricular standstill using a bedside device that deli…
GMN 2883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4237
1953 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016)
Successful resection of aneurysm of thoracic aorta and replacement by graft.
GMN 3047.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3559
1953 SELDINGER, Sven Ivar (1921 – 1998)
Catheter replacement of the needle in percutaneous angiography. A new technique.
Percutaneous arterial catheterization.
GMN 2924.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4927
1954 EDLER, Inge Gudmar (1911 – 2001); HERTZ, Carl Hellmuth (1920 – 1990)
The use of ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording the movements of heart walls.
Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed.
GMN 2883.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4242
1954 TEXON, Meyer (1910 – 2006)
Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.
"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).
GMN 11714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13915
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
1955 LADUE, John Samuel (1911 – 1980); WROBLEWSKI, Felix (1921 – 2013)
The significance of the serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase activity following acute myocardial infarction.
Diagnostic test for myocardial infarction.
GMN 2883.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4246
1955 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); MAHAFFEY, D. E.
Total excision of the aortic arch for aneurysm.
Total excision and replacement by polyvinyl sponge (Ivalon) prosthesis.
GMN 2993.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5283
1955 GOFMAN, John William (1918 – 2007); LINDGREN, Frank T. (1924 – 2007); ET AL
The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.
Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…
GMN 7757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9929
1956 MURRAY, Donald Walter Gordon (1894 – 1976)
Homologous aortic-valve-segment transplants as surgical treatment for aortic and mitral insufficiency.
First successful aortic valve homograft. For report of six-year follow-up, see A. J. Kerwin, et al., New Engl. J. Med.,1962, 266,852.
GMN 3047.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3579
1956 RUSKIN, Arthur
Classics in arterial hypertension.
GMN 3160.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4097
1957 EAST, Charles Frederick Terence (1894 – 1967)
The story of heart disease.
GMN 3161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4098
1957 RICHARDS, Dickinson Woodruff (1895 – 1973)
The contributions of right heart catheterization to physiology and medicine, with some observations on the physiopathology of pulmonary heart disease.
GMN 2883.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4250
1957 SATOMURA, Shigeo (1919 – 1960)
Ultrasonic Doppler method for the inspection of cardiac functions.
Demonstration of the Doppler shift in the frequency of ultrasound backscattered by moving cardiac structures.
GMN 2883.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4254
1958 LILLEHEI, Clarence Walton (1918 – 1999); WEIRICH, William L. (1924 – 2014); GOTT, Vincent Lynn (1927 – )
The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…
GMN 3047.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3603
1958 SZILAGYI, D. Emerick (1910 – 2009); ET AL
Clinical use of an elastic Dacron prosthesis.
Arterial prosthesis. With L. C. France, R. F. Smith, and J. G. Whitcomb.
GMN 3047.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3607
1958 MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13742
1959 FURMAN, Seymour (1931 – 2006); ROBINSON, George (1922 – )
The use of intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block.
First use of pacemaker for Stokes–Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source. See also Furman and Scawadel, John B., "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes–Adams seizures ," New Engl. J. Med.,1959, 2…
GMN 3047.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3591
1959 COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); ET AL
Ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction: Results of surgical treatment.
Cardiopulmonary bypass and open excision of the aneurysm. With W.S. Henly, K.H. Amad, & D.W. Chapman.
GMN 3047.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3611
