Clarence Crafoord (1899 to 1984) was a Swedish cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. He is best remembered for carrying out the first successful repair of a coarctation of the aorta, the narrowing of the main artery leaving the heart, on 19 October 1944, one year before the American surgeon Robert Gross achieved the same operation. His other contributions belong to the same period of surgical modernisation: in the 1930s he introduced heparin as a way to prevent thrombosis after operations, and in the 1940s he pioneered mechanical positive-pressure ventilation so that the chest could be opened safely during thoracic surgery. From 1948 to 1966 he served as professor of thoracic surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
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was a Swedish cardiovascular surgeon
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was a Swedish cardiovascular surgeon, best known for performing the first successful repair of aortic coarctation
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Crafoord was professor of thoracic surgery at Karolinska Institute from 1948 to 1966.
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