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The history of paediatric cardiology on stamps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2017

Hazım A. Gursu*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Children’s Hematology, Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Ibrahim I. Cetin
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Children’s Hematology, Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
*
Correspondence to: H. A. Gursu, Assoc. Prof., Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Children’s Hematology, Oncology Education and Research Hospital, 06130, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +90 505 561 8799; Fax: +90 312 347 23 30; E-mail: hagursu@yahoo.com.tr

Abstract

Paediatric cardiology is arguably the sub-specialty in which the greatest advances have been made in both disease diagnosis and treatment over the past half a century. Paediatric cardiology emerged as a discipline in the 1930s. Since then, advances in imaging techniques such as echocardiography, angiography, CT, or magnetic resonance and extracorporeal circulation have provided excellent diagnosis and treatment of CHD. The pioneers of paediatric cardiology are more than eponyms, for each used in new and original ways the tools and concepts available in his or her era. This brief overview of the history of paediatric cardiology on stamps begins from William Harvey up to our own time, and includes the milestones in paediatric cardiology.

Type
Review Article
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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