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Cardiology

Introduction to Cardiac Catheterization

Built from Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease

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7 sections · 75 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Definition and scope of cardiac catheterization
    • Cardiac catheterization activity in the United States
    • Evolution of the catheterization laboratory

    3 slides

  2. 02

    Foundations of circulatory science

    • Pre-Harvey understanding of blood flow
    • Harvey's demonstration of the venous circulation
    • Quantitative foundations: Galileo and Descartes
    • Birth of the science of hydraulics
    • Emergence of hemodynamics as a discipline
    • First blood pressure measurement in an animal
    • Hales' wax casts of the ventricle
    • Claude Bernard and the term cardiac catheterization
    • Simultaneous intracardiac pressure recording in the horse
    • Fick's law of diffusion
    • The Fick principle for cardiac output
    • Fluoroscopy and the problem of vascular contrast
    • Moniz and the first contrast angiogram

    13 slides

  3. 03

    The first human catheterizations

    • Forssmann's rationale for central venous access
    • First human cardiac catheterization
    • Publication and its consequences
    • Cournand and Richards at Bellevue Hospital
    • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1956
    • First catheter aortogram from the radial artery
    • The Seldinger technique
    • Indirect visualisation of the coronary arteries
    • First selective coronary angiogram
    • Judkins catheters and the establishment of coronary angiography

    10 slides

  4. 04

    The catheter becomes therapeutic

    • Dotter's accidental recanalisation of an occluded iliac artery
    • Dotter's proposal for mechanical dilatation
    • Concentric telescoping dilators for transluminal angioplasty
    • Limitations of the Dotter dilator technique
    • European uptake of the Dotter method
    • Gruentzig's route to vascular dilatation

    6 slides

  5. 05

    Development of balloon angioplasty

    • Rationale for the balloon-tipped dilatation catheter
    • The latex balloon problem
    • The polyvinyl chloride balloon
    • Miniaturisation for the coronary circulation
    • First percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
    • Birth of interventional cardiology
    • Devices that followed balloon angioplasty

    7 slides

  6. 06

    Development of coronary stents

    • The two clinical problems of balloon angioplasty
    • Endovascular coil spring prosthesis
    • Self-expanding nitinol coil stent
    • Self-expanding wire mesh coil stent
    • Clinical experience with the self-expanding stent
    • Principle of the balloon-expandable stent
    • Mechanical actions of the implanted stent
    • The first balloon-expandable coronary stents
    • Divergent testing programmes for the two stents
    • Drug-eluting stents
    • Determinants of residual restenosis risk

    11 slides

  7. 07

    Structural heart interventions

    • Balloon atrial septostomy
    • From coronary dilatation to valvular stenosis
    • Inoue balloon mitral valvuloplasty
    • Balloon valvuloplasty of the pulmonary and aortic valves
    • Limitations of balloon aortic valvuloplasty
    • Andersen's concept of a stent-mounted valve
    • From animal experiment to first-in-human implantation
    • First human transcatheter aortic valve implantation
    • Expansion of transcatheter structural therapy
    • Evolution of cardiac catheterization
    • Key dates in the development of the field
    • Recurring principles across the history
    • References
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    • Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease
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