Viking Björk
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Swedish surgeon
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- PhD Surgery Uppsala University
Why Is Viking Björk Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Viking Olov Björk was a Swedish cardiac surgeon. Early life and education Björk wrote his dissertation in 1948, titled "Brain perfusion in dogs with artificially oxygenated blood". Björk–Shiley valve In 1968, he collaborated with American engineer Donald Shiley to develop the Björk–Shiley valve, a mechanical prosthetic heart valve. It was the first "tilting disc valve", used to replace the aortic or mitral valve. Many modifications followed, including the convexo-concave valve. The convexo-concave valve had defects in form of strut fractures. Therefore, the monostrut valve was introduced to prevent outflow strut fractures.
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