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

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 ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

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

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart was implanted in a patient at The Christ Hospital Health Network recently in Cincinnati, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...