Ludwig Rehn

German surgeon

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In history of medicine: Heart surgery
…sutured (first done successfully by Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt am Main, in 1896); the pericardial cavity—the cavity formed by the sac enclosing the heart—could be drained in purulent infections (as had been done by Larrey in 1824); and the pericardium could be partially excised for constrictive pericarditis when it was…
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