Harvey Feigenbaum

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Harvey Feigenbaum (born 1933) is an American cardiologist known for his life-long work in the field of echocardiography. [1] He wrote the first textbook on the subject in 1972, which is currently in its 8th edition, and has published over 300 articles. [2] He has trained generations of cardiologists including many of the world's pioneers in the field through his numerous visitors, frequent workshops, annual courses in Indianapolis, Indiana beginning in 1968, the year when he started formal fellowship training [1] He founded the field of cardiac sonography in 1965 and the American Society of Echocardiography in 1975. [1] His seminal article on the diagnosis of pericardial effusions published in 1965 with his technique [3] "brought echocardiography to the attention of thousands of practitioners". [4]

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Personal history

Feigenbaum was born on November 20, 1933, in East Chicago, Indiana. He is the youngest of the four children of Tillie and Julius Feigenbaum. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Europe. He graduated from East Chicago Washington High School. [1]

Indiana University

Feigenbaum attended Indiana University in Bloomington and graduated with a degree in anatomy and physiology in 1954. He finished his doctorate in medicine at the same institution four years later. He went on to spend his medical internship at Philadelphia General Hospital from 1958 to 1959. He then returned to the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis for his residency and fellowship in cardiology under the direction of Dr. Charles Fisch. During his fellowship, Feigenbaum completed training in cardiac catheterization at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and then started the catheterization program at the Indiana University Medical Center. [1]

Feigenbaum became interested in studying cardiac hemodynamics. It was difficult to use catheterization to measure volumes which were essential for this endeavor. Along with his former cardiac fellow, Richard Popp, MD, the two were the first to show a clear correlation between left ventricular echo dimensions and angiographic volumes [5] Many consider measuring the size of the left ventricular chamber and estimating its function to be the groundbreaking work that brought echocardiography to the mainstream of echocardiology. Even though pericardial effusions are serious, they are not very common. Information on left ventricular size and function is vital for every patient with known or suspected heart disease.

Since 1965 Feigenbaum and his colleagues have gone on to create multiple advances in echocardiography. They described how echocardiography could detect many abnormalities of the cardiac valves and chambers, [6] developed early strip chart recorders for M-mode echocardiograms, [7] introduced early 2-dimensional echocardiographic transducers and demonstrated digital techniques for recording and displaying echocardiograms, [8] and performed echocardiograms with exercise and pharmacologic stress [9] which were all developed at Indiana University.

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Maron, Barry J. (2017). "Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, and the Creation of Clinical Echocardiography: A Conversation With Barry J. Maron, MD". The American Journal of Cardiology. Elsevier BV. 120 (11): 2085–2099. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.08.033 . ISSN   0002-9149. PMID   29156174.
  2. ↑ Feigenbaum, Harvey (1986). Echocardiography. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. ISBN   0-8121-0979-1. OCLC   11865839.
  3. ↑ Ultrasound Diagnosis of Pericardial Effusion, Harvey Feigenbaum JAMA 1965:191(9):711-714
  4. ↑ Fye, Bruce (2015). Caring for the heart : Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization. Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-998236-3. OCLC   903245768.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ Feigenbaum H, Popp RL, Wolf SB, Troy BL,Pombo JF, Haine CL, Dodge HT: Ultrasound Measurements of the Left Ventricle. A Correlative Study with Angiography. ArchInternMed. 1972:129(3)461-461
  6. ↑ Feigenbaum H: Ultrasound as a Clinical Tool in Valvular Heart Disease. CardiovascClin. Vol.5, No.2, FA Davis and Company, Philadelphia, PA 1973 pp 219-246
  7. ↑ Eggleton RC, Feigenbaum H, Johnston KW, Weyman AE, Dillon JC, Chang S; Visualization of Cardiac Dynamics with Real-time B-mode Ultrasonic Scanner. "Ultrasound in Medicine" Vol.1, D White editor, Plenum Press, 1975 pp385-393
  8. ↑ Feigenbaum H:Digital Recording, Display and Storage of Echocardiograms. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1:378-83 1988
  9. ↑ Wann LS, Faris JV, Chldress RH, Dillo JC, Weyman AE, Feigenbaum H: Exercise Cross-sectional Echocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease. Circulation, 60:1300-8 1979
  10. ↑ "B. F. Skinner: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". University Honors & Awards.
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