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Balloon Angioplasty – The Legacy of Andreas Grüntzig, M.D. (1939–1985)
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 dilatatio...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664865 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2014.00015 |