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Interventional cardiovascular medicine has evolved from an
extremely crude method of opening femoral arteries initiated by
Dotter, to a fi eld that has now been recognized as having a suffi
cient fund of knowledge to require boards sanctioned by the American
Board of Internal Medicine. From Andreas Gruentzig’s development of
the noncompliant balloon method, we have seen an explosion of
bioengineering technology.
The discipline of interventional cardiovascular medicine has perhaps
initiated more registries and clinical trials than any other
discipline in medicine. Indeed, the whole emphasis on evidence-based
medicine has evolved during the era of interventional cardiology.
Many basic science breakthroughs have been stimulated by the
advances produced in interventional cardiology, as well as the
problems and complications created by the new technologies