A Short History of Cardiac Catheterization
When I recommend that a patient needs coronary angiography (synonyms: heart catheterization, coronary angiogram, cardiac catheterization, or simply “cath”) I take a moment to bring up the risks...
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Stents
As you probably already know, former president Bill Clinton recently underwent a “heart procedure” upon his return from a visit to Haiti that the press later clarified as...
Coronary Care
I was recently reading an article published in the British Journal of Medicine in 1987 on the history of coronary care units. As you may know, the coronary...