CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY.


Gruentzig, Andreas, and others. Archive of 26 items documenting the introduction and very early clinical experience with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: 1) Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary Artery Stenoses: Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA). 1978, pp. 325-343, IN: M. Kaltenbach, P. Lichtlen, R. Balcon & W.-D. Bussmann, eds. Coronary Heart Disease. 3rd International Symposium, Frankfurt, February 1978. Stuttgart 1978, 346pp. Fine. First edition; 2) Zur Perkutanen Behandlung Atherosklerotischer Stenosen mit dem Dilationskatheter. 1978, pp. 243-253, IN: G. Blumchen ed., Beitrage zur Geschichte der Kardiologie, November 1978. Roderbirken 1979, 4to, dw, 255pp. Fine. First edition; 3) Percutaneous transluminal dilatation of coronary artery stenosis. June 1979, offprint from Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surgeon (June 1979); 4) Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. 1979, pp. 61-68, IN: N. Engl. J. Med. (complete issue of July 12, 1979 with original printed wrappers and advertisements). Very fine. 5) Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. 1979, pp. 61-68, IN: N. Engl. J. Med. (complete issue of July 12, 1979 with original printed wrappers; this edition printed in England for the European market). Very fine; 6) Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. 1979 [8pp.] Offprint (folded horizontally for mailing); 7) Packet of items distributed to attendees of the Emory University School of Medicine Course: Demonstrations in Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) V. Atlanta, February 1-5, 1981. This was the fifth course Gruentzig taught and the first outside of Zurich. The packet includes: a) announcement and program; b) two versions of the attendance confirmation sheet; c) list of attendees; d) ten sheets including seven sheets describing individual patients; e) glossy 2-page information sheet for USCI Dilatation Inflation Device (1979); f) glossy 4-page information sheet for USCI Gruentzig Dilaca Coronary Dilatation Equipment (1981); 8) Twenty-six original 4 x 5 inch black and white photographs taken by Marshfield Clinic cardiologist John N. Browell at the April 1982 PTCA course at Emory taught by Gruentzig and Spencer King. These include a photograph of Gruentzig and King and 24 photographs of slides projected during the course; 9) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: Role of the Surgeon. 1982, offprint; 10) M. Kaltenbach, A. Gruentzig, K. Rentrop, and W-D Bussmann, eds. Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Intracoronary Thrombolysis. Berlin 1982, 442pp. Very fine. First edition; 11) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: The First Five Years and the Future. 1983, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GRUENTZIG; 12) Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty: Report of Complications from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PTCA Registry. 1983, offprint; 13) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, April 8-12, 1984. Questions and Answers. 21pp. xerographic copy handed out at the meeting; 14) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: Six Years' Experience. 1984, offprint; 15) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: Late Results at 5 Years Following Intervention. 1985, offprint; 16) Primary Angioplastic Success Rates of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. 1985, offprint; 17) In-hospital Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Elective Coronary Angioplasty. 1985, offprint; 18) Physician as Patient. The Example of Coronary Angioplasty. 1986, offprint; 19) Long-Term Follow-Up after Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. 1987, offprint. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR SPENCER KING; 20) J. Willis Hurst, The First Coronary Angioplasty as Described by Andreas Gruentzig. 1986, offprint. INSCRIBED: "For my friend Bruce Fye, With great respect, J. Willis Hurst"; 21) J. Willis Hurst, Andreas Roland Gruentzig, M.D.; The Teaching Genius. 1986. offprint. INSCRIBED: "For Dr. Bruce Fye, With best wishes, J. W. Hurst, M.D."; 22) J. Willis Hurst, Tribute: Andreas Roland Gruentzig (1939-1985). A private tribute, 1986, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Bruce Fye, With respect, J. Willis Hurst, M.D."; 23) Spencer B. King III, Angioplasty from Bedside to Bench, 1996, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Bruce, Best wishes, Spencer King"; 24) Spencer B. King, III, The Development of Interventional Cardiology, 1998, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Bruce Fye, A real medical historian! Spencer King"; 25) W. R. Castaneda-Zuniga et al. The mechanism of balloon angioplasty. 1980, offprint; 26) Color xerographic copy of Mathhias Barton et al. "Balloon Angioplasty: The Legacy of Andreas Gruentzig, M.D." Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2014): 15. doi:10.3389/fcvm.2014.00015.This archive documents the introduction, early experience, and diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), including two of Andreas Gruentzig's publications that preceded his landmark Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in the New England Journal of Medicine (present in three formats). "The Gruentzig technique took the cardiologic community by storm, and the era of interventional cardiology was born" (Mehta and Khan, "Cardiology's 10 greatest discoveries of the 20th century," Texas, 2002: 164-171). PTCA revolutionized cardiology and cardiac surgery. See Michel Bertrand ed. The Evolution of Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology. St. Albans, UK, 2006, and W. B. Fye, "Transforming cardiac catheters into treatment tools." IN: Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (New York, 2015), 363-395.