Mid State Cardiology history

In the 1830's, an Irish physician, Dominic John Corrigan, described aortic insufficiency diagnosed by a sharply declining "water hammer" pulse.

Figure 5: Marey's Wrist Sphygmograph, 1857.

A pulse controller made by Castagna in 1885 is illustrated in Fig.

There is at least one other landmark that equals in importance for our specialty the work of Harvey, and that is the contribution of William Einthoven2, several centuries later, actually the early 1900's.

Eight years later, in 1934, with the help and counsel of Russel Burton Opitz, a practicing cardiologist and professor of physiology at a medical school, Bishop was able to convene a group and organize the New York Cardiological Society.

One day in 1935, a man was ushered into my office; he said his name was Groedel.

The American College of Cardiology achieved its legal start with the granting of its charter on December 2, 1949.

By 1962, SLEH and TCH had the most active open-heart program in the world.

In 1974, the 1st issue of the Texas Heart Institute Journal emerged from an office housed in the depths of the Cullen Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratory—where for several years thereafter copies were actually wrapped and labeled by any lab workers who happened to be available.

The vectorcardiogram is still in use today, still studied and discussed; Hubert Mann lived until 1977.

With the clinical introduction of balloon coronary angioplasty in 1978, however, cardiologists began to revascularize the myocardium in the catheterization laboratory.

By 2005, Capital Cardiology was fully established as a group and had gained 50% of the market share in the capital district.