A tribute to Sven-Ivar Seldinger

Abstract

T. Doby1 It is almost impossible to imagine life without things we grew up with, so it is a little hard for us to feel the thrill of angiographers when they first heard about the Seldinger technique [1].Present-day radiologists cannot even guess how angiography could have been done without it.We are so used to this method that we have begun dropping the eponym, as it has become the "natural" way to insert the catheter in a blood vessel.But let us recount the circumstances under which the Just over 30 years ago, Sven-lvar Seldinger described a simple method of introducing a catheter percutaneously.which has revolutionized radiology.

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