First PTCA was performed in which year?
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Interesting article from the link given below:
http://www.ptca.org/history_timeline.htm...
This brief timeline is intended to give an overview of the history of interventional cardiology. More in-depth information can be accessed through the links provided, as well as from the reference sources listed at the bottom of the page.
* 3000 B.C. — Egyptians perform bladder catheterizations using metal pipes.
* 400 B.C. — Catheters fashioned from hollow reeds and pipes are used in cadavers to study the function of cardiac valves.
Hales performs catheterization on horse
* 1711 — Hales conducts the first cardiac catheterization of a horse using brass pipes, a glass tube and the trachea of a goose.
* 1844 — French physiologist Bernard coins the term "cardiac catheterization" and uses catheters to record intracardiac pressures in animals.
Werner Forssmann performs self-catheterization
* 1929 — First documented human cardiac catheterization is performed by Dr. Werner Forssmann in Eberswald, Germany. (Click to see video)
* 1941 — Cournand and Richards employ the cardiac catheter as a diagnostic tool for the first time, utilizing catheter techniques to measure cardiac output.
* 1956 — Forssmann, Cournand and Richards share the Nobel Prize. Cournand states in his acceptance speech "the cardiac catheter was...the key in the lock."
Mason Sones at Cleveland Clinic
* 1958 — The diagnostic coronary angiogram — the key to selective imaging of the heart is discovered by Dr. Mason Sones
* Charles Dotter 1964 — Transluminal Angioplasty, the concept of remodeling the artery, is introduced by Dr. Charles T. Dotter
* 1967 — Dr. Rene Favaloro conducts first saphenous vein graft (bypass) surgery in Cleveland
Melvin Judkins in lab
* 1967 — Introduction of the Judkins Technique of coronary angiography
* 1974 — Andreas Gruentzig performs first peripheral human balloon angioplasty
Gruentzig's Poster Exhibit at 1976 AHA
* 1976 — Gruentzig presents results of animal studies of coronary angioplasty at American Heart Association meeting
* 1st intraoperative angioplasty performed in San Francisco 1977 — First human coronary balloon angioplasty performed intraoperatively by Gruentzig, Myler and Hanna in San Francisco
* before / after of 1st PTCA patient 1977 — Andreas Gruentzig performs first cath lab PTCA on awake patient in Zurich; starting with this case, all PTCA data is entered into a worldwide registry
* Myler, Stertzer and Gruentzig in Zurich 1978 — First PTCA cases performed in America by Myler in San Francisco and Stertzer in New York; Gruentzig conducts first demonstration course in Zurich, Switzerland, attended by 28 pioneering physicians; International Dilatation Society is established
* Last PTCA course (1980) in Zurich 1980 — Gruentzig conducts the last of five demonstration courses in Zurich with Sones, Judkins and Dotter in attendance; he then moves to Atlanta, GA where be becomes Director of Interventional Cardiology at Emory University; National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute begins support of the existing PTCA registry; first 1000 angioplasties are performed worldwide; guiding catheters are introduced
* 1982 — over-the-wire coaxial balloon systems introduced, brachial guiding catheters & steerable guide wires are developed
* 1985 — A year of loss in the history of interventional medicine: Dotter, Sones, Judkins and Gruentzig all pass away nine months of each other; Gruentzig dies in a plane crash on Sunday night, October 27; on Monday, October 28, Richard Schatz, co-inventor of the Palmaz-Schatz stent, has an appointment to meet with Gruentzig
* 1986 — coronary atherectomy devices are introduced; Jacques Puel and Ulrich Sigwart implant the first coronary Wallstents in Toulose, France
IVUS imaging
* 1987-1993 — a large number of new interventional devices are invented and perfected; some, like lasers, are less effective than hoped for; others are approved and used worldwide; these devices include rotational atherectomy devices (Rotablator), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and stents
* 1994 — the Palmaz-Schatz stent is approved by the F.D.A. for use in the United States
* 1994-1997 — stents become commonplace and eliminate many complications
* 1997 — over one million angioplasties will be performed worldwide, making angioplasty the most common medical intervention in the world
* 2001 — almost two million angioplasties were performed worldwide, with an estimated increase of 8% annually
* 2002 — the 25th anniversary of the first angioplasty performed in an awake patient
* 2003 — the first drug-eluting stent, the Cypher, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson / Cordis, is approved by the F.D.A., marking a major advance in the battle to reduce restenosis to single digits
* 2004 — Boston Scientific gets its Taxus drug-eluting stent approved; many studies are published demonstrating the vastly improved outcomes from drug-eluting stents
Coronary angioplasty, also known as "percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)", was first developed in 1977 by Andreas Gruentzig. The procedure was quickly adopted by numerous cardiologists, and by the mid-1980's, many leading medical centers throughout the world were adopting the procedure as a method to avoid bypass surgery.
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