Alain Cribier

Alain Cribier
Born(1945-01-25)25 January 1945
Paris, France
Died16 February 2024(2024-02-16) (aged 79)
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
NationalityFrench
EducationMD (University of Paris)
OccupationCardiologist
Known forPioneering surgical procedures

Alain Cribier, FACC, FESC (25 January 1945 – 16 February 2024) was a French interventional cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the University of Rouen's Charles Nicolle Hospital. Alain Cribier was best known for performing the world's first transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2002, first transcatheter mitral commissurotomy in 1995, and first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Cribier, Alain (25 November 2002). "Percutaneous Transcatheter Implantation of an Aortic Valve Prosthesis for Calcific Aortic Stenosis". Circulation. 106 (24): 3006–3008. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000047200.36165.B8. PMID 12473543.
  2. ^ "Profile: Alain Cribier". Cardiovascular News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  3. ^ Ozkan, Judith (March 2017). "Alain Cribier- the Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology". European Heart Journal. 38 (9): 615–616. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx073. PMID 30052868.