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Alain Carpentier
French surgeon (1933- ) · France · On the map · Doctors
Alain Frédéric Carpentier is a French cardiac surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the "father of modern mitral valve repair". He is most well-known for the development and popularization of a number of mitral valve repair techniques.
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In 1996, he performed the first minimally invasive mitral valve repair in the world and in 1998 he performed the first robotic mitral valve repair with the da Vinci Surgical System prototype. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize.
