Clarence Crafoord, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clarence Crafoord

Swedish surgeon

Date of Birth: 28-May-1899

Place of Birth: Hudiksvall, Gävleborg County, Sweden

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1984

Profession: surgeon

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Clarence Crafoord

  • Clarence Crafoord (1899 – 1984) was a Swedish cardiovascular surgeon, best known for performing the first successful repair of aortic coarctation on 19 October 1944, one year before Robert E.
  • Gross. Crafoord also introduced heparin as thrombosis prophylaxis in the 1930s and he pioneered mechanical positive-pressure ventilation during thoracic operations in the 1940s. Crafoord was professor of thoracic surgery at Karolinska Institutet from 1948 to 1966.

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