Biörn Ivemark Explained

Biörn Ivemark (4 May 1925  - 25 March 2005) was a Swedish pediatrician and pathologist. He is credited with characterizing asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also sometimes known as "Ivemark syndrome".^[1]

Born in Karlstad, Ivemark graduated from Karolinska Institutet (with a med.lic. degree) in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.^[2]

He died at Carcassonne, in southern France, in 2005.

Notes and References

1. http://www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Ivemark's_syndrome Steadyhealth: Ivemark's syndrome
2. Ivemark, Biörn I., Implications of agenesis of the spleen on the pathogenesis of cono-truncus anomalies in childhood: An analysis of the heart malformations in the splenic agenesis syndrome, with fourteen new cases, Diss. Stockholm : Karol. inst.,Stockholm, 1955; LIBRIS record