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JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions: The End of the Beginning

2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jcin.2007.12.003

1936-8798

Eugene Braunwald,

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

![Figure][1] In 1929, a unique event occurred in the then-young specialty of cardiology when Werner Forssmann performed the first cardiac catheterization—on himself! After what seemed to many as a one-time stunt, in 1941, Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards began a systematic