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Cournand

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Cournand
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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In the early 1940's, after decades of experiments by researchers, Andre Cournand, working in New York with Hilmert Ranges and Dickinson Richards, began utilizing right heart catheterization on a regular basis in the undertaking of a comprehensive investigation of cardiac function in both normal and diseased patients.
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