Mark Ravitch

Biographical Timeline

• Born
• Died

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Medical Eponyms

Cantrell’s sequence

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Key Medical Contributions

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Major Publications

• Ravitch MM, Sabiston DC Jr. Anal ileostomy with preservation of the sphincter; a proposed operation in patients requiring total colectomy for benign lesions. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1947 Jun;84(6):1095-9. [Dis Colon Rectum. 1990 Jun;33(6):529-38.]
• Gordon AJ, Braunwald E, Ravitch MM. Simultaneous pressure pulses in the human left atrium, ventricle and aorta; preliminary communication. Circ Res. 1954 Sep;2(5):432-3.
• Cantrell JR, Haller JA, Ravitch MM. A syndrome of congenital defects involving the abdominal wall, sternum, diaphragm, pericardium, and heart. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1958 Nov;107(5):602-14. [Cantrell’s sequence]
• Ravitch MM. Intussusception In Infants And Children. 1959
• Ravitch MM, Matzen RN. Pulmonary insufficiency in pectus excavatum associated with left pulmonary agenesis, congenital clubbed feet and ectromelia. Improvement following operation. Dis Chest. 1968 Jul;54(1):58-62.
• Ravitch MM. A Century of Surgery 1880-1980. Volumes I & II. 1981
• Steichen FM, Ravitch MM. Stapling in surgery. 1984
• Ravitch MM. Second thoughts of a surgical curmudgeon. 1987
• Ravitch MM, Steichen FM. Atlas of general thoracic surgery. 1988

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References

Biography

• Fingeret AL, Fingeret AE, Hardy MA. Mark M. Ravitch: historian and innovator. J Surg Educ. 2011 Mar-Apr;68(2):155-8.
• Ramenofsky ML, Raffensperger J. Mark M. Ravitch MD: Surgeon, author, teacher, soldier. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Oct;55(10):2243-2245.
• Mark M. Ravitch Papers. NLM

Eponymous terms

• Mark M. Ravitch, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Surgery. Johns Hopkins University