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== Cardiology community == === Associations === * [[American College of Cardiology]] * [[American Heart Association]] * [[European Society of Cardiology]] * [[Heart Rhythm Society]] * [[Canadian Cardiovascular Society]] * [[Indian Heart Association]] * [[National Heart Foundation of Australia]] * Cardiology Society of India === Journals === {{main category|Cardiology journals}} * [[Acta Cardiologica]] * [[American Journal of Cardiology]] * [[Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia]] * [[Current Research: Cardiology]] * [[Cardiology in Review]] * [[Circulation (journal)|Circulation]] * [[Circulation Research]] * [[Clinical and Experimental Hypertension]] * [[Clinical Cardiology]] * [[EP – Europace]] * [[European Heart Journal]] * [[Heart (journal)|Heart]] * [[Heart Rhythm]] * [[International Journal of Cardiology]] * [[Journal of the American College of Cardiology]] * [[Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology]] * Indian Heart Journal === Cardiologists === {{Main|List of cardiologists}} * [[Robert Atkins (nutritionist)|Robert Atkins]] (1930–2003), known for the [[Atkins diet]] * [[Christiaan Barnard]] (1922–2001), cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation * [[Eugene Braunwald]] (born 1929), editor of ''Braunwald's Heart Disease'' and 1000+ publications * [[Wallace Brigden]] (1916–2008), identified [[cardiomyopathy]] * [[Manoj Durairaj]] (1971– ), cardiologist from Pune, India who received [[Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice]] * [[Willem Einthoven]] (1860–1927), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won the 1924 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram") * [[Werner Forssmann]] (1904–1979), who infamously performed the first human catheterization on himself that led to him being let go from [[Berliner Charité Hospital]], quitting cardiology as a speciality, and then winning the 1956 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] ("for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system") * [[Andreas Gruentzig]] (1939–1985), first developed balloon angioplasty * [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657), wrote ''[[Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus]]'' that first described the closed circulatory system and whom Forssmann described as founding cardiology in his Nobel lecture * [[Murray S. Hoffman]] (1924–2018) As president of the Colorado Heart Association, he initiated one of the first jogging programs promoting cardiac health * [[Max Holzmann]] (1899–1994), co-founder of the Swiss Society of Cardiology, president from 1952 to 1955 * [[Samuel A. Levine]] (1891–1966), recognized the sign known as [[Levine's sign]] as well as the current grading of the intensity of [[heart murmurs]], known as the [[Levine scale]] * Henry Joseph Llewellyn "Barney" Marriott (1917–2007), ECG interpretation and ''Practical Electrocardiography''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Upshaw|first1=Charles|title=Henry J. L. Marriott: Lucid Teacher of Electrocardiography|journal=Clinical Cardiology|date=18 April 2007|volume=30|issue=4|pages=207–8|doi=10.1002/clc.6|pmid=17443652|pmc=6652921}}</ref> * [[Bernard Lown]] (1921–2021), original developer of the defibrillator * [[Woldemar Mobitz]] (1889–1951), described and classified the two types of [[second-degree atrioventricular block]] often called "Mobitz Type I" and "Mobitz Type II" * [[Jacqueline Noonan]] (1928–2020), discoverer of [[Noonan syndrome]] that is the top syndromic cause of congenital heart disease * [[John Parkinson (physician)|John Parkinson]] (1885–1976), known for [[Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome]] * [[Helen B. Taussig]] (1898–1986), founder of pediatric cardiology and extensively worked on [[blue baby syndrome]] * [[Paul Dudley White]] (1886–1973), known for [[Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome]] * [[Fredrick Arthur Willius]] (1888–1972), founder of the cardiology department at the [[Mayo Clinic]] and an early pioneer of [[electrocardiography]] * [[Louis Wolff]] (1898–1972), known for [[Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome]] * [[Karel Frederik Wenckebach]] (1864–1940), first described what is now called type I [[second-degree atrioventricular block]] in 1898
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