Werner Forssmann: a pioneer of cardiology.

Werner Forssmann, Eberswalde, the 1956 Nobel Prize for medicine.

Since October 1949 Werner Forssmann was a regular guest of Prof. Dr. Hugo Wilhelm Knipping in the Medical University Clinic of Cologne. Established himself as urologist in Bad Kreuznach, Werner Forssmann had read about the American further development of heart catherization, which was invented by himself. Prof. Wilhelm Bolt, who was one of the medical station doctors of the Cologne Clinic, had ...

Multivessel Disease in the Modern Era of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Catheter-Related Sheaths (CRS): Pathophysiology and Treatment Strategies

A reappraisal for the use of pulmonary artery catheters

The history of the pulmonary artery catheter spans almost 90 years from the first reported cardiac catheterization by Werner Forssmann (on himself!) in 1929. Some 25 years later, a balloon-tipped catheter was developed by Lategola and Rahn [1] and used in dogs, but the name of the catheter (and much of the credit for its invention) went to Swan and Ganz, whose now famous paper on the use of a b...

A note on the history of cardiology: Dr. Otto Klein, 1881 to 1968.

a C ardiology has many unsung heroes, even so Dr. Otto lein’s (Fig. 1) history and contribution are exceptionally uried in rarely read pages of old medical journals and in parse citations in books published on the history of ardiology. Otto Klein was born in Pilsen in 1881 in the Czech egion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He graduated rom The German Medical School in Prague, and during orld Wa...