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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GRÜNTZIG, Andreas Roland (1939 – 1985)

1939 – 1985

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1979 CE

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Nonoperative dilatation of coronary-artery stenosis: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)
SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000) GRÜNTZIG, Andreas Roland (1939 – 1985) SIEGENTHALER, Walter E. (1923 – 2010)

Grüntzig developed the first successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. Abstract "In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a catheter system is introduced through a system…