1959 HUNTER, Samuel Wynne (1921 – 2008); ET AL
A bipolar myocardial electrode for complete heart block.
With N. A. Roth, D. Bernardez, and J. L. Noble.
GMN 2883.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4261
1959 LINK, Karl Paul Gerhard (1901 – 1978)
The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.
An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.
GMN 11405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13604
1959 TABAK, L.; MARDEN, E.; MASON, H. L.; PIPBERGER, Hubert V.
Digital recording of electrocardiographic data for analysis by a digital computer.
This is probably the earliest paper on the use of computers to analyze electrocardiograms. The abstract: "A corrected orthogonal 3-lead system has been used to record electrocardiograms directly from patients at Veter…
GMN 11560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13759
1959 PRINZMETAL, Myron (1908 – 1987); KENNAMER, Rexford (1920 – 2013); BOR, Naci (1928 – ); ET AL
Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.
Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …
GMN 12277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14496
1959 FRIEDMAN, Meyer (1910 – 2001); ROSENMAN, Ray H. (1920 – 2013)
Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings: Blood cholesterol level, blood clotting time, incidence of arcus senilis, and clinical coronary artery disease.
Abstract: "Three groups of men, selected solely according to the behavior pattern which they habitually manifested in their work, were compared with respect to their serum cholesterol levels, clotting times, presence …
GMN 14230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16548
1960 CHARDACK, William M. (1914 – 2006); GREATBATCH, Wilson (1919 – 2011); GAGE, Andrew A.
A transistorized, self-contained, implantable pacemaker for the long-term correction of complete heart block.
The first fully-implantable pacemaker.
GMN 3047.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3618
1960 BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)
A bibliography of internal medicine: Selected diseases.
Literature on "selected diseases" presented in chronological order, beginning with auricular fibrillation and ending with trichinosis, emphasizing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
GMN 11219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13416
1960 ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996); SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)
An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.
"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…
GMN 11590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13789
1960 LAMB, Lawrence E. (1926 – 2015)
The first Internation Symposium on Cardiology in Aviation. Conducted at the School of Aviation Medicine 12-13 November 1959. USAF Aerospace Medical Center (ATC). Edited by Lawrence E. Lamb.
GMN 11767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13968
1960 BRAUNWALD, Nina Starr (1928 – 1992); COOPER, Theodore (1929 – 1993); MORROW, Andrew G. (1922 – 1982)
Complete replacement of the mitral valve. Successful clinical application of a flexible polyurethane prosthesis.
Braunwald was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She was the first woman surgeon certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the first woman elected to the American Association for Thoracic Su…
GMN 12221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14433
1961 STARR, Albert (1926 – ); EDWARDS, Miles Lowell (1898 – 1982)
Mitral replacement: The shielded ball valve prothesis.
On September 21, 1960, Starr successfully inserted a “ball-in-cage” prosthetic valve (the Starr-Edwards heart valve) into a patient’s mitral valve, which was severely diseased as a result of rheumatic fever. This was …
GMN 3047.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3624
1961 EDWARDS, Jesse Efrem (1911 – 2008)
An atlas of acquired diseases of the heart and great vessels. 3 vols.
GMN 11586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13785
1961 KOUWENHOVEN, William Bennett (1886 – 1975); JUDE, James R. (1928 – 2015); KNICKERBOCKER, G. Guy (1932 – 2022)
A new approach to cardiac resuscitation.
"The pioneers of modern cardiopulmonary resucitation describe their breakthrough technique of combining mouth-to-mouth ventilation, closed chest compressions, and transthoracic defibrillation to treat cardiac arrest" …
GMN 11671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13872
1961 HOLTER, Norman Jefferis (1914 – 1983)
New method for heart studies.
Probably the first publication on the Holter Monitor, which was released for commercial production in 1962. Abstract "I have proposed that orthodox electrocardiography be implemented, both for research and medical pur…
GMN 12250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14465
1962 ROSS, Donald Nixon (1922 – 2014)
Homograft replacement of the aortic valve.
Homograft valve placed below coronary orifice, a single page report. The first complete report on the "Ross procedure" was "Homotransplantation of the aortic valve in the subcoronary posittion," J. thorac. cardiovasc.…
GMN 3047.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3626
1962 LOWN, Bernard (1921 – ); AMARASINGHAM, Raghavan; NEUMAN, Jose
New method for terminating cardiac arrythmias; use of synchronized capacitor discharge.
Use of transthoracic direct current countershock of very short duration to avoid the vulnerable period in the cardiac cycle.
GMN 2883.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4272
1963 DAY, Hughes Winfield (1915 – 1990)
Preliminary studies of an acute coronary care area.
Hughes is credited with inventing the coronary care unit, and the "crash cart"
GMN 2883.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4277
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
1963 BARLOW, John Brereton (1924 – 2008); POCOCK, Wendy A.
The significance of late systolic murmurs and mid-late systolic clicks.
See also J. B. Barlow, W.A. Pocock P. Marchand, M. Denny, "The significance of late systolic murmurs," Am Heart J., 66 (1963) 443- 452 Barlow revolutionized thinking about the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation w…
GMN 12217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14428
1963 HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993); LOWN, Bernard (1921 – ); ABE, Tadaaki
"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.
"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…
GMN 12259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14475
1964 FISHMAN, Alfred Paul (1918 – 2010); RICHARDS, Dickinson Woodruff (1895 – 1973)
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
GMN 1588.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1429
1964 BURCH, George Edward (1910 – 1986); DEPASQUALE, Nicholas P. (1927 – 2018)
The history of electrocardiography.
Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 3161.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4100
1964 CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003); HOFFMAN, Brian Francis (1925 – 2013)
The physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias.
GMN 2883.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4281
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
1964 HOLTER, Norman Jefferis (1914 – 1983); GLASSCOCK, Wilford R. (1925 – 1998); GILSON, John S. (1995 – 1928)
Clinical observations using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP continuous electrocardiographic system. Tentative standards and typical patterns.
Documentation of the value of the Holter monitor in clinical work. Abstract "We have described characteristic patterns observed using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP system for recording continuous electrocardiograms on…
GMN 12251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14466
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
1965 STARLING, Ernest Henry (1866 – 1927); CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000); MITCHELL, Jere H.
Starling on the heart. Facsimile reprints, including the Linacre lecture on the law of the heart. Analysis and critical comment by Carleton B. Chapman and Jere H. Mitchell.
GMN 12283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14504
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
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
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 KANNEL, William B. (1923 – 2011)
The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…
GMN 10213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12402
1968 BERNOULLI, Johann (1667 – 1740); BERNOULLI, Daniel (1700 – 1782)
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli’s Hydraul…
GMN 11551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13750
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
1969 SCHERLAG, Benjamin J. (1932 – ); ET AL
Catheter technique for recording His bundle activity in man.
Scherlag was the first person to consistently record atrial ventricular bundle ("His bundle") potentials, which served as one of the cornerstones of clinical electrophysiology. With 5 co-authors.
GMN 2883.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4284
1970 LEIBOWITZ, Joshua O. (1895 – 1993)
The history of coronary heart disease.
A scholarly work with extensive bibliographies.
GMN 3161.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4102
1970 SWAN, Harold James Charles "Jeremy" (1922 – 2005); GANZ, William (1919 – 2009); ET AL
Catheterization of the heart in man with use of a flow-directed balloon-tipped catheter.
The Swan-Ganz balloon flotation catheter, a flow-guided balloon-tipped catheter of flexible construction, which enabled “placement without associated ventricular arrhythmias, prompt and reliable passage to the pulmona…
GMN 2883.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4288
1970 CACERES, Cesar Augusto (1927 – 2020); DREIFUS, Leonard S. (1925 – 2017)
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
GMN 11564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13763
1971 RAVIN, Abe (1908 – 1978); FRAME, Florence K.
International bibliography of cardiovascular auscultation and phonocardiography.
Part 1: over 6000 journal articles, books and book chapters from 1820 to 1966. Part 2: author listing of books, theses, dissertation, and phonodiscs from 1816 to 1968. Part 3: subject index to journal articles.
GMN 12370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14595
1972 FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)
Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.
Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).
GMN 12233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14447
1973 HARRIS, Charles Reginald Schiller (1896 – 1979)
The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.
GMN 1588.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1523
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 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
1974 HENRY, Walter L.; GRIFFITH, James M.
A sector scanner for real time two-dimensional echocardiography.
Abstract "During the past several years one-dimensional pulse-echo ultrasound techniques have proven extremely useful in cardiac diagnosis. A one-dimensional system, however, only visualizes structures lying along a s…
GMN 12246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14461
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
1975 MCALPINE, Wallace Arnold (1920 – 2005)
Heart and coronary arteries: An anatomical atlas for clinical diagnosis, radiological investigation, and surgical treatment.
With 1,098 images this is "probablly the highest quality atlas of the heart ever produced" (W. Bruce Fye). This atlas received recognition throughout the world, including a Gold Medal at the International Book Festiva…
GMN 11691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13892
1975 COURNAND, André Frédéric (1895 – 1988)
Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.
GMN 12232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14446
1976 DOBY, T.
Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.
GMN 11569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13768
1977 COMROE, Julius H. Jr. (1911 – 1984); DRIPPS, Robert D. (1911 – 1973)
The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.
GMN 3161.41 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4104
