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

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(with a med.lic. degree) in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.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;

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, in southern

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, in 2005.

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