Andreas Roland Grüntzig (25 June 1939 – 27 October 1985) was a German radiologist and cardiologist, with foundational interest, training and research in epidemiology and angiology.[1] He is known for being the first to develop successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. He was born in Dresden.[2]
^Casarella, William J. (1986), "Radiology - Andreas Roland Gruentzig, M.D. - In Memorium", Radiology, 159: 285, doi:10.1148/radiology.159.1.285
^"NY Times - Andreas Gruentzig", The New York Times, 29 October 1985
Andreas Roland Gruentzig was born in Dresden, Germany on 25 June 1939, shortly before the start of World War II. His father, Dr. Wilmar Gruentzig (1902–1945)...
awake patient was performed in Zurich by the German cardiologist AndreasGruentzig on September 16, 1977. The first percutaneous coronary angioplasties...
in the body. Coronary angioplasty was first introduced in 1977 by AndreasGruentzig in Switzerland. PCI is used to open a blocked coronary artery/arteries...
specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. AndreasGruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development...
building on the pioneering work of Charles Dotter in 1964 and especially AndreasGruentzig starting in 1977, coronary catheterization has been extended to therapeutic...
Lecture in 2005 and by the European Society of Cardiology by the AndreasGruentzig Award and Lecture in 2004. Topol has been involved with digital medicine...
coronary intervention on a sentient patient is performed by cardiologist AndreasGruentzig in Zurich. October 26 – The world's last natural infection of smallpox...
failure on 1 June 1979. His wife died in 1993. André Frédéric Cournand AndreasGruentzig Dickinson W. Richards "Werner Forssmann – Biography". Nobel Foundation...
risk of this procedure, an alternative was in high demand. In 1977, AndreasGruentzig performed the first successful percutaneous coronary angioplasty....
India, SCAI Interventional Fellows Institute (IFI), International AndreasGruentzig Society (IAGS), E-Cypher, USA, Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional...
Distinguished Doctor Award (2008), CTO Man of The Year Award (2008) and AndreasGruentzig Memorial Award, among others. He is the eldest son of lawyer Balachand...
catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system") AndreasGruentzig (1939–1985), first developed balloon angioplasty William Harvey (1578–1657)...
their work and his own research involving balloon-tipped catheters, AndreasGruentzig performed the first success percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty...
States only to return to India in 1985 after training there under AndreasGruentzig, who was known as the father of coronary angioplasty, and joined Apollo...
catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system") AndreasGruentzig (1939–1985) – first developed balloon angioplasty Max Holzmann (1899–1994)...
and Colin Suggett, for Norwich, are the winning goal scorers. Dr. AndreasGruentzig, a heart surgeon at the University of Zurich, successfully inflated...
orientation, would disown him. Sipple would later commit suicide. Dr. AndreasGruentzig of West Germany made the first successful test of the technique of...
department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem for 27 years. AndreasGruentzig 1939 1985 German/American Performed first balloon angioplasty. Max...
University Hospital of Zürich in 1973. It was during these years that AndreasGruentzig was working with catheters designed by Charles Dotter to open blood...
damaged by atherosclerosis, was performed by West German surgeon AndreasGruentzig, who had perfected the procedure on dogs. The "Night of the Pencils"...
the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology (2006) and AndreasGruentzig Distinguished Interventional Cardiologist Award of Cardio Vascular...
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