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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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Published in:Front Cardiovasc Med
Main Authors: Barton, Matthias, Grüntzig, Johannes, Husmann, Marc, Rösch, Josef
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671350/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664865
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2014.00015
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