Despite the fact that Clark had to be tethered to a large air compressor for the 112 days that he lived after surgery, the Jarvik-7 was the first artificial heart where the pumping mechanism was ...

For years, it was shrouded in secrecy. It was heart surgery’s Manhattan Project, whispered to be set to change the world. And ...

For a growing population of patients with heart disease, a transplant is currently the only option. Another local team wants ...

and approached Starr in 1958 with an idea to produce an artificial heart. “Dr. Starr could have thought this guy is crazy, but he didn’t,” said OHSU emeritus professor of surgery ...

Where valves were damaged beyond repair, artificial valves were put in. Blocked arteries were bypassed. Weakened arteries were replaced altogether. Modern heart surgery seemed unstoppable.

The artificial heart, described as one of the newest types ... heart or now this fantastic device," Freundt said. "After his surgery, he recovered very quickly. On the second day, he was sitting ...

Schroeder returned to Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had received heart-bypass surgery two years earlier and on November 25th was given an artificial heart. Schroeder ...

A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR ...

Will surgery be enough ... engineering team reconstructs a three-dimensional model of the patient’s heart, using artificial ...

Our Professor of Surgery, J. Englebert Dunphy ... California, to manufacture artificial heart valves for human use—the first such company in the world. I remained in Oregon to continue the ...

Another artificial heart could be beating in Houston soon ... The research team is led by Dr. Iki Adachi, an associate professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and surgical director ...