The history of cardiology from antiquity to the present day

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Unit:
Τομέας Βασικών Επιστημών
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2018-07-25
Year:
2018
Author:
Papastavrou Georgia
Dissertation committee:
Πουλάκου-Ρεμπελάκου Έφη, Αν. Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Παπαϊωάννου Θεόδωρος, Αν. Καθηγητής,Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Αγαπητός Εμμανουήλ, Καθηγητής,Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Καραμάνου Μαριάννα, Αν. Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης
Σαλάκος Νικόλαος , Αν. Καθηγητής,Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Πρωτογέρου Αθανάσιος,Αν. Καθηγητής,Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Βλαχόπουλος Χαράλαμπος,Αν. Καθηγητής,Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η ιστορία της καρδιολογίας από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι σήμερα
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The history of cardiology from antiquity to the present day
Summary:
In primitive cultures, the heart was seen as a source of heat, and there was a perception that the blood vessels transported the spirit. Thousands of years after Galen's theories (131-201), Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) revises the anatomy and observes the coronary heart vessels. In 1616, William Harvey (1578-1657) proclaims that blood circulates with the power of the heart. William Harvey published the "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" in 1628, reviewing obsolete concepts. Harvey concludes that the pulsating heart is responsible for the arteries of the arteries and not the "natural throbbing miracle" of the blood vessels.And most importantly, Harvey's experiments showed that blood instead of being absorbed immediately, flows into a continuous circuit through the heart, lungs, and body. Although the ascultation of thorax was applied by Hippocrates, it took 1400 years to use a wooden stethoscope. Pulse recording and measurement of blood pressure are achievements of the 19th century. Over the years, arrhythmias have been diagnosed and the physiological ones correlated with pathological heart sounds. Technology is at the service of cardiology when the Nobel Prize is awarded to William Einthoven (1860-1927) for the discovery of the electrocardiograph. Since 1920, the electrocardiogram is the necessary confirmation of the diagnosis of myocardial ischaemia or infarction.In 1967, surgical coronary artery bypass surgery and 10 years later, angioplasty helped to visualize coronary vessels in detail. In the 1960s and 1970s, echocardiography sheds light on the heart in a safe and genius way. Diagnosis and treatment methods are at the heart of the development of sub-specialties within cardiology and continue to evolve to date.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Heart, Galen, Vesalius, William Harvey
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
240
Number of pages:
263
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