Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
 2014
DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2014.00015
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Balloon Angioplasty – The Legacy of Andreas Grüntzig, M.D. (1939–1985)

Matthias Barton
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Johannes Grà ⁄ ntzig
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Marc Husmann
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et al.

Abstract: In 1974, at the Medical Policlinic of the University of Zürich, German-born physician-scientist Andreas Grüntzig (1939–1985) for the first time applied a balloon-tipped catheter to re-open a severely stenosed femoral artery, a procedure, which he initially called “percutaneous transluminal dilatation”. Balloon angioplasty as a therapy of atherosclerotic vascular disease, for which Grüntzig and Charles T. Dotter (1920–1985) received a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978, became one … Show more

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“…The balloon-tipped catheter was used to open a stenosed femoral lesion for the first time in 1974 by the German-physician Andreas Grüntzig. This procedure is known as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) [ 17 ].…”
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