Cardiology
A rubber tube to the heart
The history of the world´s first heart catheterization
4min
Published on February 10, 2022
![Krankhaus Auguste-Viktoria-Heim in Eberswalde](https://medmuseum-corp.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/7f7965f5ce813ce7/ccae6d4c4cea/v/111ae0874d30/Krankhaus-Auguste-Viktoria-Heim-in-Eberswalde.jpg)
The Auguste-Victoria Hospital in Eberswalde
Source: Forssmann family archive
![Werner Forssmann mit seiner Frau Elisabeth](https://medmuseum-corp.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/03d765fdd5b8c058/dce706e065a9/v/38a6d2bd4a02/Werner-Forssmann-mit-seiner-Frau-Elisabeth_1950er.jpg)
Werner Forssmann assessing an X-ray with his wife, Elisabeth, at his practice in Bad Kreuznach in the early 1950s
Source: Forssmann family archive
![rubber catheter in Werner Forssmann’s right atrium](https://medmuseum-corp.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/2dfc7de8380f708d/8d2dbe8638ba/v/df14415a5304/Katheter-in-der-rechten-Vorkammer--Forssmann--Klinische-Wochenschrift-8--Nr.-45--2085-20879.jpg)
X-ray image to document cardiac catheterization, showing the catheter extending into the right atrium
Source: Werner Forssmann, “Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens” [“Probing of the right heart”], Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 45, 1929
![Werner Forssmann bei der Verleihung des Medizinnobelpreis, 1956](https://medmuseum-corp.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/e4831ee1202a2ef1/810f0831efbd/v/039ef57f50be/Werner-Forssmann_Medizinnobelpreis_1956.jpg)
Werner Forssmann at the presentation of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1956
Source: Forssmann family archive