RT Book, Section A1 Kern, Morton J. A1 Seto, Arnold H. A2 Fuster, Valentin A2 Harrington, Robert A. A2 Narula, Jagat A2 Eapen, Zubin J. SR Print(0) ID 1161727142 T1 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION, CARDIAC ANGIOGRAPHY, AND CORONARY BLOOD FLOW AND PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS T2 Hurst's The Heart, 14e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071843249 LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1161727142 RD 2024/03/28 AB In 1929, Werner Forssman, a resident surgeon at Eberswalde in Germany, inserted a urologic catheter into his right atrium from a left antecubital vein cut down he had performed on himself using a mirror. After walking downstairs to the radiology suite, the position of the catheter tip was verified by a roentgenogram. This was the beginning of cardiac catheterization: the insertion and passage of small plastic catheters into arteries, veins, the heart, and other vascular structures to obtain angiographic images of coronary arteries and cardiac chambers and to measure hemodynamic data (pressure and flow) in the heart. Cardiac angiography images not only diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) but are used to visualize abnormalities of the aorta as well as the pulmonary and peripheral vessels.