Item Detail
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26949
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2
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2
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English
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Discovering a Surgical First : Russell M. Nelson and Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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54
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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7-36
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In an April 2003 general conference address, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recounted an experience of receiving sudden inspiration on how to perform a certain surgery. The image that came midsurgery to the young surgeon in 1960 led to the repair of a previously inoperable valve defect in the heart of a Latter-day Saint stake patriarch. This article documents the circumstances surrounding the surgery, describes the operative technique (because Nelson never published a report of the operation), places the surgery in its proper medical and historical context, and briefly recounts how surgical techniques have advanced since 1960.