title: [Professor Iosif Khaimovich Rabkin and his priorities in roentgenoendovascular surgery].
abstract: The article is dedicated to outstanding Soviet and Russian interventional radiologist, Professor I. Kh. Rabkin and his priorities in the development of roentgenoendovascular methods of diagnosis and treatment of arterial and venous diseases. Virtually simultaneously with American surgeons, I. Kh. Rabkin not only worked out anew method of intravascular stenting of arteries with spirals made of shape-memory metal ( nitinol) but was the first in the world who in 1984 successfully stented the external iliac artery in a 56-year-old male patient with stage IV limb ischaemia.
authors: S P
authors: SP
authors: Gliantsev
mesh_terms: D000497:Alloys / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D062069:Inventions; D011364:Professional Practice; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D012426:Russia; D015607:Stents / Q000266:history*; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D000497:Alloys; C013616:nitinol