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Biörn Ivemark

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Biörn Ivemark (1925 in Karlstad – May 8, 2005 in Carcassonne) was a Swedish pediatrician and pathologist. He is credited with characterizing asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also sometimes known as "Ivemark syndrome".[1]

Ivemark graduated from Karolinska Institutet (with a med.lic. degree) in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.[2]

References

  1. ^ Steadyhealth: Ivemark's syndrome Archived February 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Ivemark, Biörn I., Implications of agenesis of the spleen on the pathogenesis of cono-truncus anomalies in childhood: An analysis of the heart malformations in the splenic agenesis syndrome, with fourteen new cases, Diss. Stockholm : Karol. inst.,Stockholm, 1955; LIBRIS record