History: Milsestones in Cardiology (...adult cardiology)

Extract from ACC's 50th year celebration brochure (1949-1999):

(Unfortunately, Adult Cardiology-oriented list. But, keep watching...I will add pediatric cardiology-related events)

1315: Mondino de Luzzi, Chair of Medicine, Univ. of Padua (Published first anatomic text)

1543: Andreas Vesalius, Professor in Univ. of Padua (Published De Humani Corporis Fabrica, a landmark anatomic text)

1628: William Harvey published De Motu Cordis

1772: William Heberden published the classic description of angina pectoris

1785: William Withering published the monograph on foxglove (Digitalis)

1819: Rene Laennec published his book on auscultation. (Invention of stethoscope)

1895: Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays

1912: James Herrick published article describing AMI

1929: Werner Forssmann performs first documented human cardiac catheterization - on himself

1948: Dwight Harken & Charles Bailey reported surgical procedures for mitral stenosis

1948: Framingham Heart Study started.

1949: Formation of American Coll. of Cardiology (New York City)

1948 (Nov 28): First Blalock-Taussig Shunt (Johns Hopkins)

1954: Iuge Edler & Carl Hlemuth Hertz reported using ultrasound to image beating human heart (Echocardiography was born)

1958: Mason Sones performed first selective coronary angiogram

1960: First pacemaker implantation for heart block

1960: Richard Lower & Norman Shumway reported first successful canine heart transplant (Orthotopic, homotransplant)

1961: Findings from Framingham Heart Study - associating cholestrol, BP and EKG abnormalities to risk of heart disease

1965: President Lyndon Johnson - Created Medicare & Medicaid created. Created National Heart Instt. (later, NHLBI) as a separate institute under NIH

1968: Rene Favaloro reported saphenous vein graft CABG

1976: Streptokinase for thrombolysis in AMI

1977: Andreas Gruntzig reported PTCA

1980: Michael Mirowski - reported ICD implantation for malignant VT

1982: William DeVries - implanted first artificial heart

1986: Jacques Puel & Ulrich Sigwart - First coronary stenting reported.

1991: Warren Jackman - reported RF ablation for WPW