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Burt Cohen, editor of the web's most extensive independent resource on stents & angioplasty for cardiologists & patients since 1997. #AngioHistory #BeforeGoogle
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It's angioplasty's birthday! #OTD in 1964, using a series of catheters of increasing diameter, Charles Dotter opened a blocked femoral artery w/o surgery. He called it "angioplasty" & made a film to demonstrate it. His radical concept was rejected by US surgeons but embraced by Europeans, ultimately resulting in Gruentzig's balloon which revolutionized the treatment of coronary artery disease. A personal note: today is also my birthday, so I guess I was born to do this!🤣🎈❤️🩹#AngioHistory
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2 weeks ago the field of medicine lost a giant: Tom Fogarty, inventor of numerous devices, the balloon embolectomy catheter, AneuRx Endovascular Aortic Stent Graft, Hancock Tissue Heart Valve & many more. He held almost 200 patents, co-founded more than 45 medical technology companies, & created an institute to spur medical device innovation. Here's a short clip from my interview with him (from our archives). #AngioHistory
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61 yrs ago today, radiologist Charles Dotter opened a blocked femoral artery with a catheter. He called it "Angioplasty." Rejected by U.S. surgeons, the concept was embraced in Europe & resulted in Gruentzig's balloon which revolutionized the treatment of CAD. #AngioHistory
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Today marks a celebration for interventional cardiology: the 46th anniversary of the 1st coronary angioplasty, performed in Zurich by Andreas Gruentzig. As promised, here is our story, told by the 1st patient himself, Adolph Bachman, and his doctor, Bernhard Meier. #AngioHistory
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Born in 1908 in Louisiana to Lebanese-Christian immigrants, Michael DeBakey invented procedures, techniques, & devices that revolutionized vascular & cardiac surgery. But his mother taught him to sew & that helped him make the 1st artificial aortic aneurysm graft. #AngioHistory
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It's time for Christmas parties & in 1984 there was an interesting one at Emory in Atlanta. Imagine you're an interventional Fellow: your boss is Andreas Gruentzig & he asks you to cath him just before the party. Watch below as Dr. Hall Whitworth tells the tale. #AngioHistory
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The #ECLIPSE trial presented by Ajay Kirtane at #TCT2024 showed that there was no difference between orbital atherectomy and POBA for severely calcified lesions. So I'm posting this clip from my four decades ago 1985 interview with Andreas Gruentzig about "The Ideal Catheter." He says: "For most of our problems at the present time, the balloon catheter is quite a good answer." #AngioHistory
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ORBITA-STAR at #EuroPCR is a fascinating & successful study of type of chest pain as a predictor of PCI success. Very difficult to ascertain if angina caused by ischemia is what patients felt. This was a concern of Gruentzig's 40 yrs ago! Christopher Rajkumar Rasha Al-Lamee #AngioHistory
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Not long after the 1st angioplasties were done, I made a film w/Simon Stertzer introducing PTCA. Sponsored by USCI (anyone remember them?) it was shown at the 1980 American College of Cardiology meeting. Their booth was mobbed. Here's a clip, showing what eqpt was like then.😮🎈#AngioHistory
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ATTN: Cardiology Fellows et al. Imagine that your supervising MD asks you to cath them just before the dept Christmas Party. And that he is Andreas Gruentzig. Watch below, as Dr. Hall Whitworth tells that tale from 1984. We're walking down the hallway and he turns to me and he says, "Now if anything happens..." and I don't really know what he said after that because it struck me, if anything happens...!!!
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46 yrs ago today, a new era in film began as the 1st #StarWars movie premiered in San Francisco. A few blocks away, another era was moving forward: interventional cardiology. Since #TCT2023 is being held in SF this year, I offer you the video below: Star Wars, Angioplasty, & SF.
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A successful #SCAI2023 ends today: congrats to all & incoming/past prez George Dangas, MD, MACC, MSCAI Sunil V. Rao! Since I'm the #AngioHistory guy, here 's a video clip on how & why SCAI was founded by Mason Sones & Melvin Judkins. From my 1986 documentary, Dr. William Sheldon tells the tale:
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As Dr. Geoffrey Hartzler says in this video clip, Andreas #Gruentzig was always thinking about the patient. And #Gruentzig himself addresses these issues in my 1985 interview with him. Remember this was pre-stent, so a serious complication meant emergency CABG. #AngioHistory
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