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Neth Heart J. 2005 Apr;13(4):147-150.

Evaluation of haemodynamics by cardiac catheterisation: historical perspective and present practice.

Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation

A Bergstra, A F M van den Heuvel, G A Mook, F Zijlstra

PMID: 25696475 PMCID: PMC2497292

Abstract

In 1956, three men were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in particular 'for their discoveries concerning heart catheterisation and pathological changes in the circulatory system'. Their names in alphabetical order: André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards. Forssmann's experiment dated from 1929, while Cournand and Richards started their work in 1941. The order in which they presented their Nobel lectures on 11 December 1956 was Forssmann, Richards, Cournand.

Keywords: cardiac catheterisation; cardiac output; haemodynamics; history

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