The European Heritage Lecture 2007 will focus on the life and work of Dr. Otto Klein.
Dr. Otto Klein was born in 1891 in Pilsen, and received his MD degree in 1915 at the German University in Prague where he continued to work thereafter. On 1 August 1930, Dr. Otto Klein published in the Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift his experience with eleven patients in whom he successfully introduced a catheter into the right heart, out of 18 trials. He described his cardiac output measurements and all technical details of a right-heart catheterisation in a way which could not be better accounted for today, more than 75 years later. In the introduction of his paper he described Werner Forssmann's previous experience.
In 1938 Dr. Klein had to resign his academic post in Prague, and after the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia he immigrated to Argentina. After having worked for several years at the Durand Hospital in Buenos Aires, he died there in 1968. His pioneering work with right-heart catheterisations in 1930, which today seems to be the necessary link between the seminal work of Forssmann and that of Cournand and Richards, was nearly forgotten, but he should be remember as a neglected and overlooked pioneer of invasive cardiology.
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The European Heritage Lecture 2007 will be given by Prof. Shlomo Stern.
Prof. Stern graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as resident and Chief Physician at the Hadassah University Hospital, and then as Head of Cardiology Department at the Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem. He is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He served as Chairman of the Scientific Council of Israel, President of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology and President of the Israel Heart Society.
Prof. Stern is an author of more than 250 papers in Circulation, Circulation Research, JACC, European Heart Journal, American Journal of Cardiology and other medical journals, editor of two major monographs in cardiology. |
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