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Nina Starr Braunwald

August 5, 1992

American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher

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Nina Starr Braunwald was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. In 1960, she led the surgical team that implanted the first artificial mitral valve replacement for human heart valves that she designed.

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