Charles A. Hufnagel
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Charles A. Hufnagel
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Charles A. Hufnagel, M.D. was an American surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve in the early 1950s. Hufnagel was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and reared in Richmond, Indiana. His father was also a surgeon. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he began work on the heart and other organ transplants and explored the use of plastic to replace blood vessels, developing a technique cal
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American surgeon (1916–1989)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Hufnagel
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2023-06-18T15:06:49Z
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