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American College of
Cardiology Honors the Contributions of Interventional
Cardiovascular
Medicine
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Andreas
R. Gruentzig, MD |
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October 23, 2008 /
Washington, DC -- (updated) Capping off the 30-Year
Anniversary of Coronary Angioplasty, the American College
of Cardiology
(ACC) continued the celebration
of Dr. Andreas Gruentzig’s courageous and visionary work last
week by premiering an exhibit, honoring the history of interventional
cardiovascular medicine and showcasing the broad-based and
far-reaching impact that interventional cardiology has had
on cardiovascular care and medical science. |
The exhibit's dedication ceremony coincided with the opening
of the 2008 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) and
was attended by many of the pioneering interventional cardiologists
who created this field over the past three decades.
The four-paneled exhibit will
be a permanent part of the Knowledge Exchange Area of Heart
House, the ACC’s national headquarters building in Washington
DC.
Visitors to Heart House, including physicians, legislators,
governmental
officials, regulatory agency representatives, members of
the press and media, industry and others, will be encouraged
to
view and interact with the exhibit when attending programs,
meetings
and social functions. |
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The first
panel celebrates the history of interventional cardiovascular
medicine and the life of Dr. Andreas Gruentzig, including a video
presentation, created by Burt Cohen, founder of
Angioplasty.Org, to honor those who preceded
Gruentzig and formed the foundation for his work. The remaining
three panels address the ways in which interventional cardiology
has informed and enhanced our knowledge base, and contributed to
the treatment and management of cardiovascular disease today and
into the future. Each of the panels will address a specific area
of impact (patient care, education and research/innovation) through
photos, graphics and a touch screen video presentation. The ACC
is also planning a companion website.
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Mason Sones' "Accidental" Discovery
of Coronary Angiography
Leads to
the Development of Bypass Surgery
and Angioplasty (1:54)
© 2008, Venture Digital LLC •
Music by Nell
Shaw Cohen
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Above is a short clip from Cohen's
video, relating how in 1958 Dr. Mason Sones of the Cleveland Clinic "accidentally" discovered
selective coronary arteriography -- the imaging modality that allowed
not only angioplasty to be developed, but also formed the basis
for Rene Favaloro's invention of coronary bypass surgery in 1967.
This past year has seen the ACC
reach out to the interventional community in a number of ways. The
2009 Annual
Meeting of the ACC will now have a new expanded i2 Summit, held in
partnership with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. And
the ACC's new journal JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions,
launched a year ago, has become popular enough that, starting in
January, the journal will
go to a monthly publication schedule.
Source: Angioplasty.Org
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