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Title:

Surgical treatment of patent ductus arteriosus: a new historical perspective.

Document type:
Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article
Author(s):
Kaemmerer, H; Meisner, H; Hess, J; Perloff, JK
Abstract:
The conventional surgical history of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) dates from August 26, 1938, when Robert E. Gross of Boston, Massachusetts, successfully ligated a PDA. It is largely unknown that in the same year and before Gross, Emil Karl Frey, a Surgeon at the Medizinische Akademie in Dusseldorf, Germany, already ligated a PDA successfully. Assuming that he would soon perform more ligations, Frey did not publish his findings, and this historic ductal operation escaped attentio...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Am J Cardiol
Year:
2004
Journal volume:
94
Journal issue:
9
Pages contribution:
1153-4
Language:
eng
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15536652
Print-ISSN:
0002-9149
TUM Institution:
Klinik für Kinderkardiologie und angeborene Herzfehler (Prof. Hess)
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