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Andreas Roland Gruentzig was born in Dresden,
Germany on 25 June 1939,
shortly before the
start of
World War II. His father, Dr.
Wilmar Gruentzig (1902–1945)...
- Francisco,
Myler and
Gruentzig had
performed dilatations in the
setting of byp****
surgery to test the
catheter concept before Gruentzig performed the first...
- the body.
Coronary angioplasty was
first introduced in 1977 by
Andreas Gruentzig in Switzerland. PCI is used to open a
blocked coronary artery/arteries...
- with the
catheter based treatment of
structural heart diseases.
Andreas Gruentzig is
considered the
father of
interventional cardiology after the development...
- blossomed.
Building on the work of Seldinger,
Charles Dotter and
Andreas Gruentzig developed angioplasty.
Seldinger SI (1953). "Catheter
replacement of the...
- on 1 June 1979. His wife died in 1993. André Frédéric
Cournand Andreas Gruentzig ****inson W.
Richards "Werner
Forssmann – Biography".
Nobel Foundation...
- of this procedure, an
alternative was in high demand. In 1977,
Andreas Gruentzig performed the
first successful percutaneous coronary angioplasty. In this...
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catheterization and
pathological changes in the
circulatory system")
Andreas Gruentzig (1939–1985),
first developed balloon angioplasty William Harvey (1578–1657)...
- the
pioneering work of
Charles Dotter in 1964 and
especially Andreas Gruentzig starting in 1977,
coronary catheterization has been
extended to therapeutic...
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Distinguished Doctor Award (2008), CTO Man of The Year
Award (2008) and
Andreas Gruentzig Memorial Award,
among others. He is the
eldest son of
lawyer Balachand...
