How to Pronounce Clarence Crafoord
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May 28, 1899 Hudiksvall, Gävleborg County, Sweden Died on 25 Feb 1984 (aged 84)
Swedish surgeon
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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.
