HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993)
1910 – 1993
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1948
#3046.1
The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.
Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…
1963
#12259
"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.
"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…
1967
#12242
Clinical experiences with a new implantable demand pacemaker.
HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993) MATLOFF, Jack Morton (1933 – 2015) BERKOVITS, Barouh (1926 – 2012) & et al.
Harken and colleagues reported "the first clinical use of an implantable noncompetitive pacer" (Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts. Baltimore, 2001, 134.) Berkovits, an engineer working for Medtronic, was an inventor of …