Albert Starr
Albert Starr · Science & Medicine
Implanted the first successful artificial heart valve (Starr-Edwards valve)
1926, New York City, United States
United States
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Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who, with engineer Lowell Edwards, developed and in 1960 implanted the first commercially successful artificial heart valve, the Starr–Edwards valve, saving and extending countless lives. His work opened the modern era of prosthetic heart-valve surgery and earned him the Lasker Award. Starr was born to a Jewish family in New York City.
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Implanted the first successful artificial heart valve (Starr-Edwards valve)
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