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".
Born in Karlstad, Ivemark graduated from Karolinska Institutet (with a med.lic. degree) in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.
He died at Carcassonne, in southern France, in 2005.
References
- Steadyhealth: Ivemark's syndrome Archived February 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- 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
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