Magdi Yacoub
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title:
Magdi Yacoub
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Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant
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Egyptian retired professor and surgeon (born 1935)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub
date created:
2005-01-08T07:51:28Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T19:56:26Z
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