English to Italian Medical Medical: Cardiology cateterizzazione cardiaca

In his first year in medical school, Forssmann became
fascinated with the heart, particularly the experiments of the
French scientist Claude Bernard, widely considered the father
of modern experimental physiology. Bernard measured
pressure
in the cardiac chambers of horses
and other animals by
inserting rubber catheters through blood vessels and into their
hearts. (In fact, he coined the term “cardiac catheterization.”)
Bernard’s animal studies convinced Forssmann that inserting a
catheter into a human
heart would also be safe. The young
medical student wanted to check the heart’s pressures and
flows, to understand and operationalize its basic functions, as
one would a complex machine. No doubt he wanted to expunge
the heart of its emotional connotations. But the idea
that the human
heart was just a pump, like an animal’s, was
still anathema.