William Ganz

William Ganz ( originally Vilém whole; born January 7, 1919 in Košice, † November 10, 2009 in Los Angeles ) was a Slovak- American cardiologist. Together with Harold Jeremy Swan, he developed a balloon catheter to measure the pressures in the right heart and into the pulmonary artery allows (Swan -Ganz catheter ).

Life

Full was born in Košice in eastern Slovakia. At the Charles University in Prague in 1937 he began to study medicine, but had to cancel it in 1939 after the invasion of the Wehrmacht. Because of his Jewish background, he was persecuted by the Nazis and interned in a labor camp, but finally was able to survive in Budapest underground. He completed his medical studies after the war at the Charles University from, and he continued his education to a cardiologist. In 1966 he emigrated to America, where he was able to continue at the Cedars -Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles his medical work. In 1970 he developed there along with the chief physician of the cardiology department, Jeremy Swan, named after their new pulmonary artery catheter. From 1982 he played a leading role in studies that had the drug to dissolve blood clots in heart attack patients to the target ( thrombolysis ). His scientific achievements were honored in 1992 with a Prize of the American Society of Cardiology. Quite William died at the age of 90 years in Los Angeles.

Publications (selection)

• Swan, H. J.; Ganz, W.; Forrester, J.; Marcus, H; Diamond, G; Chonette, D.: Catheterization of the heart in man with use of a flow -directed balloon -tipped catheter. N Engl J Med 1970; 283:447-51. PMID 5,434,111th
• Ganz, W.; Geft, I.; Maddahi J.; Berman, D.; Charuzi, Y.; Shah, P. K.; Swan, HJ: Nonsurgical reperfusion in evolving myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1983; 1 ( 5) :1247 - 53rd PMID 6,833,664th

Swell

• William Full obituary. In: The Guardian, December 8, 2008, accessed August 26, 2012

• Cardiologist
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Americans
• Born in 1919
• Died in 2009
• Man