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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

STARR, Albert (1926 – )

1926 –

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1961

#3047.16

Mitral replacement: The shielded ball valve prothesis.

STARR, Albert (1926 – ) EDWARDS, Miles Lowell (1898 – 1982)

On September 21, 1960, Starr successfully inserted a “ball-in-cage” prosthetic valve (the Starr-Edwards heart valve) into a patient’s mitral valve, which was severely diseased as a result of rheumatic fever. This was …