Background
Bergan, John Jerome was born on April 4, 1927 in Tampico, Mexico. Son of Ernest and Arva Elizabeth (Yeagley) Bergan.
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Ambulatory Treatment of Venous Disease: An Illustrative Guide: An Illustrated Guide by Mitchel P. Goldman MD Dr. (1995-08-01)
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Cerebrovascular Insufficiency
(Medicine is dependent upon changing concepts for progress...)
Medicine is dependent upon changing concepts for progress in treatment of patient problems. Perhaps nowhere in medicine is conceptual change so obvious as in study of the cerebral vasculature and its effects upon brain physiology. The ancients were particularly confused about the brain, and although the Egyptians described pulsations of the brain during life, they were ignorant of brain circulation. This was because they did not differentiate between tendons, nerves, and blood vessels. Similarly, though Pythagoras characterized the brain as an organ of reasoning, this concept was denied by no less a figure than Aristotle 200 years later. Even the anatomical distribution of the cerebral blood vessels has been subject to changing concepts. For example, Galen felt that the rete mirable, seen in lower animals such as the dog and cat, was present in man. This concept stood for a thousand years, until Vesalius described the course of the internal carotid artery and changed forever Galen's erroneous concept. Even Vesalius himself was in error. The most cursory study of his drawings will show a large communication between the internal carotid artery and the tranverse sinus, a concept that demanded change. Changing concepts and ideas are a part of our time, and many of these are the focus of the chapters in this volume. Eastcott, who was present at the birth of carotid surgery, begins a discussion of these changing concepts in his contribution on the beginning of this surgical art. Further examples of changing ideas with regard to the genesis of carotid artery plaques and the mechanisms of production of transient ischemic attacks are detailed in the contributions of Zarins, Giddens, and Glagov on atherosclerotic plaque distribution, and of Salzman on the role of platelet-vessel interaction in cerebrovascular disease. The increasing importance of intraplaque hemorrhage in the genesis of neurologic deficit is emphasized by Lusby, Ferrell, and Wylie in their chapters.
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- Techniques in Arterial Surgery (Describes the entire spectrum of arterial surtgery. Renow...)
John Jerome Bergan
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1950; Doctor of Medicine Indiana U., 1954.
Career
Intern, Indiana U. Medical Center, 1954-1955; resident in surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1955-1959; member of faculty, Northwestern University Medical School, 1959-1988; Magerstadt professor, Northwestern University Medical School, 1967-1988; chief division vascular surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, 1970-1988; professor emeritus, Northwestern University Medical School, since 1988; member of staff, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, VA Lakeside Hospital, 1959-1989; clinical professor surgery, University of California, San Diego, since 1989; attending staff, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California, since 1988; clinical professor surgery, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1989; professor surgery, Loma Linda U. Medical School, since 1994; honorary professor surgery, U. Belgrade.
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Works
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Cerebrovascular Insufficiency
(Medicine is dependent upon changing concepts for progress...)
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Techniques in Arterial Surgery
(Describes the entire spectrum of arterial surtgery. Renow...)
- Ambulatory Treatment of Venous Disease: An Illustrative Guide: An Illustrated Guide by Mitchel P. Goldman MD Dr. (1995-08-01)
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Cerebrovascular Insufficiency
Membership
Served with United States Navy, 1946-1948. Fellow American College of Surgeons (director international transplantation registry 1971-1975), Royal College Surgeons (honorary). Member American Surgical Association, Control Surgical Association (recorder since 1976), International Cardiovasc.
Society (vice president 1973), Society Vascular Surgery (president 1985), International Association Vascular Surgeons (president 1986), Society University Surgeons (honorary lecturer 1979), Society Clinical Vascular Surgery (honorary), Association Surgeons (honorary), Vascular Society Great Britain and Ireland (honorary), Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (founding member, president 1978-1979), Gulf Coast Vascular Society (president 1988), Chicago Surgical Society (vice president 1972, president 1987), New England Vascular Society (honorary, lecturer 1988), Society Clin.Vascular Surgery (honorary, lecturer 1988) South Association Vascular Surgery (honorary, lecturer 1988), Vascular Surgery Section Royal Australasian Society, American Venous Forum (founding member 1988, president 1989), Southern California Vascular Society (president 1996), Vascular Surgical Society South Africa (honorary lecturer 1991), Swedish Surgical Society, Russian Vascular Society (honorary lecturer 1992), Society.Phlebologicas Scandanavicas (honorary lecturer 1992).
Connections
Married Elisabeth Molnar. Children: Elizabeth Anne, Margaret Alice, John Widener.
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American