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Sven Ivar Seldinger
Sven Ivar Seldinger (19 April 1921 – 21 February 1998), was a radiologist from Mora Municipality, Sweden.
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In 1953, he introduced the Seldinger technique to obtain safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs.[1]
Biography
Sven Ivar Seldinger was born on 19 April 1921 in Dalarna, Sweden.
He was born to a family who had long run the local Mora Mechanical Workshop. He first began his medical training in 1940 at the Karolinska Institute. After graduating medical school in 1948, he went on to specialize in radiology.
While attending at the Karolinska Hospital he came up with an idea of how to administer a catheter that would be able to reach every human artery. He was qualified with the title of Docent in Radiology in 1967 after successfully defending his thesis on percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.[2] He was later able to demonstrate, using "phantom experiments", how one could insert a catheter into the femoral artery and