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STARR, Albert (1926 – )

1926 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1961 CE

#3047.16

Mitral replacement: The shielded ball valve prothesis.

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 rheumati…