Synonyms
Coronary single-vessel disease; coronary artery disease; CAD; stenosing coronary sclerosis; ischemic heart disease; degenerative heart disease; coronary artery disease; degenerative heart disease; ischemic heart disease (IHD); coronary artery disease (CAD); coronary heart disease (CHD);
Initial describer
The effects of coronary heart disease in the form of an angina pectoris attack (AP attack) were described by Seneca about 2000 years ago as follows: "Brevis autem valde et procellae similis est impetus, intra horam fere desinit" ("Short but violent and like a storm is the attack. Almost always it is finished within an hour").
(Wagner 1985)
In 1768, two authors, Rougnon and Heberden, independently described the symptoms of an angina pectoris attack. To this day, there is a dispute of priorities regarding the first describer (Wagner 1985).
The first surgical-therapeutic measures in the form of revascularization by balloon dilatation were developed by the German cardiologist Andreas Gruntzig and first performed in 1977 ibid (Lapp 2014).
The first successful bypass surgery was performed by DeBakey and Denis Garrett in Houston in 1964. However, it was not published until 1973 (Mueller 2001). From there, some writings mention Rene Favaloro, who performed the first bypass surgery in Cleveland in 1967 (Gerabeb 2007).
In 1974, the first balloon dilatation - initially called PTCA, later PCI - was performed in Zurich by Andreas Grüntzig (Aumiller 2018).