Cardiology Mandrel
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
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, the inventor, was born in Argentina in 1945, graduated from the Medical School at the University of LaPlata, 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).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: Argentina
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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: 2002.0253.01.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0253
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0253.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mandrels
label: Object Name
content: mandrel
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.7 cm x 1 cm; 11 11/16 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 1/2 in; 29.5275 cm x 1.27 cm