1628 |
William Harvey describes the circulation |
1785 |
William Withering publishes an account of medical use of digitalis |
1819 |
René Laennec invents the stethoscope |
1895 |
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x rays |
1920 |
Organomercurial diuretics are first used |
1954 |
Inge Edler and Hellmuth Hertz use ultrasound to image cardiac structures |
1958 |
Thiazide diuretics are introduced |
1967 |
Christiaan Barnard performs first human heart transplant |
1987 |
CONSENSUS-I study shows unequivocal survival benefit of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in severe heart failure |
1995 |
European Society of Cardiology publishes guidelines for diagnosing heart failure |