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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ZARSKY, Leona Norman (1923 – 2013)

1923 – 2013

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1948

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993) ZARSKY, Leona Norman (1923 – 2013) & et al.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…