The history of interventional cardiology: Cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, and related interventions

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S. I. Seldinger · Acta Radiologica · 1953 · 3.3K citations

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Prevalence of Total Coronary Occlusion during the Early Hours of Transmural Myocardial Infarction

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Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis

A Grüntzig, A Senning, W Siegenthaler · New England Journal of Medicine · 1979 · 2.4K citations

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Catheterization of the Heart in Man with Use of a Flow-Directed Balloon-Tipped Catheter

H. J. C. Swan, William Ganz, James S. Forrester et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1970 · 2.1K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Internal Medicine +15

A Comparison of Immediate Angioplasty with Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Cindy L. Grines, Kevin F. Browne, Jean Marco et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 2K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Internal Medicine +8