Some hazards of invasive cardiology.
Since the introduction of cardiac catheterization by Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards, the valuable diagnostic and therapeutic device has encouraged many action-minded physicians to use cardiac catheterization to develop a new specialty, invasive cardiology. The data to be presented here derive from a catastrophe that occurred during an invasive treatment of a 54-year-old man who had experienced an ordinary myocardial infarction.
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Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories, Inc., Bangor, PA 18013, USA.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000009:adverse effects; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology