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1 Clarence Crafoord: A Giant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, the First to Repair Aortic Coarctation 
John-Peder Escobar Kvitting, MD, PhD, Christian L. Olin, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 87, Issue 1, Pages (January 2009) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Clarence Crafoord (at the center) and Åke Senning (across to the right of Crafoord) operating at Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm in The “spiro-pulsator” used during the operation is seen in the foreground. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 The cover page of Clarence Crafoord's doctoral thesis from 1938.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 A schematic drawing, by Crafoord himself, of two cases of coarctation repair from the 1945 publication. (Reprinted with permission from Crafoord C, Nyhlin G. Congenital coarctation of the aorta and its surgical management. J Thorac Surg 1945;14:347–61.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

5 Fig 4 (A) Åke Senning. (B) The first implantable pacemaker from (C) The principle of the “atrial switch” operation. (Reprinted with permission from Senning A. Surgical correction of transposition of the great vessels. Surgery 1959;45:966–80.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

6 Fig 5 Clarence Crafoord, professor of thoracic surgery at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 1948–1966. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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