Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone
Heart catheter
Recorded year1929
Werner Forssmann threads a thin tube through a vein into his own heart and X-rays it, founding cardiac catheterisation.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.