Cournand

(ˈkʊənənd; -nænd; French kurnɑ̃)

(Biography) André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization

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References in periodicals archive

[4.] Cournand A, Riley RL, Breed ES, Baldwin ED, Richards DW, Lester MS, et al.

Effect of age on cardiac output after coronary angioplasty in patients of acute myocardial infarction

(3.) Harvey RM, Ferrer IM, Richards Jr DW, Cournand A.

A study on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with reference to echocardiographic findings

I decided to continue with cardiology the next year and got a chance to work back at Bellevue with the father of cardiac catheterization, Andre Cournand, just before he won a Nobel Prize.

An interview with Dr. Eugene Braunwald

(79.) Motley HL, Cournand A, Werko L, Himmelstein A, Dresdale D.

Cardiovascular consequences of obstructive sleep apnoea

Although he was only 34 years old, he had accumulated experimental practice: on the chorda tympani (Olmsted and Olmsted, 1952: 34), the action of curare (Changeux, in Robin, 1979: 73-95), he had catheterised the heart to measure the heart blood pressures and the heat production by the lungs (Cournand, in Robin, 1979: 97-121).

The only extant manuscript of Claude Bernard's first course on experimental physiology in College de France during the winter of 1847-1848

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