TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgical treatment of patent ductus arteriosus
T2 - A new historical perspective
AU - Kaemmerer, Harald
AU - Meisner, Hans
AU - Hess, John
AU - Perloff, Joseph K.
PY - 2004/11/1
Y1 - 2004/11/1
N2 - The conventional surgical history of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) dates from August 26, 1938, when Robert E. Gross of Boston, Massachusetts, successfully ligated a PDA. It is largely unknown that in the same year and before Gross, Emil Karl Frey, a surgeon at the Medizinische Akademie in Dsseldorf, Germany, had already ligated a PDA successfully. Assuming that he would soon perform more ligations, Frey did not publish his findings, and this historic ductal operation escaped attention.
AB - The conventional surgical history of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) dates from August 26, 1938, when Robert E. Gross of Boston, Massachusetts, successfully ligated a PDA. It is largely unknown that in the same year and before Gross, Emil Karl Frey, a surgeon at the Medizinische Akademie in Dsseldorf, Germany, had already ligated a PDA successfully. Assuming that he would soon perform more ligations, Frey did not publish his findings, and this historic ductal operation escaped attention.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=7044237038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.07.082
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.07.082
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 15536652
AN - SCOPUS:7044237038
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 94
SP - 1153
EP - 1154
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 9
ER -