Sven Ivar Seldinger
Sven Ivar Seldinger (19 April 1921 – 21 February 1998), was a
organs.[1]
Biography
Sven Ivar Seldinger was born on 19 April 1921 in
Karolinska Hospital he came up with an idea of how to administer a catheter that would be able to reach every human artery. He was qualified with the title of Docent in Radiology in 1967 after successfully defending his thesis on percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.[2] He was later able to demonstrate, using "phantom experiments", how one could insert a catheter into the femoral artery and reach both the parathyroid and renal arteries
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In 1975, the New York Academy of Medicine awarded Seldinger the Valentine award. The Swedish Association of Medical Radiology and the German Roentgen Association both awarded him an honorary membership to their organizations.[2] In 1984 Seldinger received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University, Sweden.[3] Seldinger died at home in Dalarna, Sweden on 21 February 1998. He is survived by his wife and three daughters.[4]
The Seldinger technique
The Seldinger technique is a medical procedure to obtain safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs. It is used for
artificial pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, and numerous other interventional medical procedures. Seldinger first published this technique for obtaining percutaneous access to blood vessels in 1953 for the publication Acta Radiologica. This has been described as a "substantial refinement" of a procedure first described by Dr. P.L. Farinas in 1942. This new technique introduced the practice of using a flexible wire to guide a catheter to previous unreachable vascular areas of the body.[5]
See also
References
- PMID 13057644.
- ^ a b "Sven-lvar Seldinger: Biography and Bibliography". American Journal of Roentgenology. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden".
- ^ Greitz, Torgny (June 1999). "Sven-Ivar Seldinger". American Journal of Neuroradiology. 20 (6): 1180–1181.
- PMID 19693307.
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