RT Book, Section
A1 Lebow, Michael H.
A1 Stevens, Scott L.
A2 Dieter, Robert S.
A2 Dieter, Raymond A.
A2 Dieter, Raymond A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1127168953
T1 Endovascular Therapies in Peripheral Arterial Disease
T2 Peripheral Arterial Disease
YR 2009
FD 2009
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071481793
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127168953
RD 2023/09/27
AB In  1929,  a  25-year-old  intern  named  Werner  Forssman  was  dissatisfied  with  the  available  methods  of  evaluating  cardiac  function  at  his  hospital  in  Berlin.  His  appeals  to  his  supervising  physicians  for  permission  to  test  a  cardiac  catheterization  technique  he  had  envisioned  were  flatly  denied.  Secretly,  Forssman  enlisted  the  help  of  a  nurse  and  conducted  the  experiment  on  himself.  Threading  a  rubber  catheter  through  a  vein  in  his  left  arm  to  the  level  of  his  heart  and  injecting  dye,  Forssman  completed  the  first  successful  cardiac  catheterization.  Upon  discovery  of  his  experiment,  he  was  promptly  fired  from  his  job  and  ostracized  by  the  medical  community.  It  was  not  until  27  years  later,  in  1956,  that  Forssman  was  awarded  the  Nobel  Prize  in  physiology  and  medicine  for  his  achievement.