Clarence Crafoord
{{Short description|Swedish cardiovascular surgeon}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Clarence Crafoord
| image = Clarence Crafoord.jpg
| caption = Clarence Crafoord
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|05|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hudiksvall, Sweden
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|02|25|1899|05|28|df=y}}
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| nationality = Swedish
| field = surgery
| alma_mater = Karolinska Institute
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| known_for = Repair of aortic coarctation
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| prizes = {{no wrap|Gairdner Foundation International Award (1962)}}
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Clarence Crafoord (28 May 1899 – 25 February 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 Institute from 1948 to 1966.
References
{{refbegin}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Kvitting
|first=John-Peder Escobar
|author2=Olin Christian L
|date=Jan 2009
|title=Clarence Crafoord: a giant in cardiothoracic surgery, the first to repair aortic coarctation
|journal=Ann. Thorac. Surg.
|volume=87
|issue=1
|pages=342–6
|location = Netherlands| pmid = 19101336
|doi = 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.08.072
|doi-access=free
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Werkö
|first=L
|date=Jun 1999
|title=[Clarence Crafoord was very interested in cooperation with colleagues working in other specialties]
|journal=Läkartidningen
|volume=96
|issue=26–27
|pages=3154
|location = Sweden| issn = 0023-7205| pmid = 10423971
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Crafoord
|first=J
|author2=Olin C
|date=May 1999
|title=[Clarence Crafoord--one of the great pioneer surgeons of the century]
|journal=Läkartidningen
|volume=96
|issue=21
|pages=2627–32, 2634–7
|location = Sweden| issn = 0023-7205| pmid = 10388287
}}
- {{cite journal
|doi=10.1016/0003-4975(92)90676-U
|last=Chitwood
|first=W R
|date=Nov 1992
|title=Clarence Crafoord and the first successful resection of a cardiac myxoma
|journal=Ann. Thorac. Surg.
|volume=54
|issue=5
|pages=997–8
|location = UNITED STATES| issn = 0003-4975| pmid = 1417305
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=BREA
|first=M M
|date=Dec 1958
|title=[Notes on the visit of Professor C. Crafoord.]
|journal=El Día Médico
|volume=30
|issue=95
|pages=3283 passim
| issn = 0012-1762| pmid = 13630161
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=CARVALHAO
|first=H M
|date=May 1951
|title=[Prof. Clarence Crafoord at Coimbra.]
|journal=Jornal do médico
|volume=17
|issue=433
|pages=804–7
| issn = 0021-7573| pmid = 14907241
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=BERNHOLM
|first=B
|date=Oct 1950
|title=[Recollections of the surgeon Crafoord.]
|journal=Imprensa Médica
|volume=26
|issue=442
|pages=92–5
| pmid = 14813796
}}
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Category:Swedish cardiac surgeons
Category:Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute
Category:20th-century Swedish physicians
Category:20th-century surgeons
Category:People from Hudiksvall
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