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Great story Ami Bhatt, MD. Forssmann's self-experiment laid the groundwork for interventional cardiology. Here's a clip where the story is told by Dr. Richard Myler who, with Simon Stertzer, performed the first coronary angioplasties in the U.S. #AngioHistory






LATE BREAKER: Dr Margaret McEntegart presented the #EMPOWERCAD 30-day outcomes at #EuroPCR. Unlike other calcium modification therapies, #ShockwaveIVL has shown consistently low angiographic complications in both female and male patients. EMPOWER CAD evaluated a real-world, all-comer,



Dear Aamir Javaid, MD -- Telling the stories of how interventional cardiology began is important b/c there are lessons there for the present day. And profiling Andreas Gruentzig is a worthy endeavor. However, I must differ somewhat from your characterization of Gruentzig as