Cardiology Stent
date: label: Date made
content: 1983-1984
notes: label: Description
content: Prototype of the first stent approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat diseased coronary and peripheral blood vessels. Dr. Julio C. Palmaz (b. 1945), the inventor, was a graduate of the Medical School at the University of LaPlata, Argentina, who moved to the United States in 1977, and eventually landed a position at the University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio.
label: Description
content: Ref: Julio C. Palmaz, “Expendable Intramural Graft, and Method and Apparatus for Implanting an Expandable Intraluminal Graft,” U.S. Patent No. 4,733,665 (March 29, 1988).
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Julio C. Palmaz, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0253.03
label: accession number
content: 2002.0253
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0253.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stent
label: Object Name
content: stent
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.5 cm x 1.8 cm; 1 3/8 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 3 3/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 2.8575 cm