- Learn about the first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, implanted in 1982 by heart surgeon William DeVries into retired dentist Barney Clark.
- (AP) _ The Jarvik-7 artificial heart is a plastic and titanium assembly roughly the size and weight of the human heart.
- The artificial heart attaches directly to the natural one. Named for its designer, Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, it was used as a permanent implant for five patients from 1982...
- Jarvik artificial heart — noun a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success • Syn: ↑Jarvik heart • Hypernyms: ↑artificial heart …
- The Jarvik artificial heart implant is the one used most frequently. Intrathoracic complications related to its use were evaluated radiographically in seven...
- The information It was the 25th anniversary of the first artificial heart, the Jarvik 7 (named after Robert Jarvik, the doctor who designed it).
- Unfortunately, in the three years following DeVries’ earliest operations with the Jarvik-7, doubts and criticism plagued the earliest version of the artificial heart.
- Dr. Robert Jarvik invented the first artificial heart in 1982. I really like the story of Jarvik. It is the story of persistence and accomplishment...
- Jarvik-7, artificial heart. The long quest for blood-compatible materials to some extent overshadows the vast number of other applications of polymers in medicine.
- This Jarvik-7 total artificial heart was used in the first authorized bridge to organ transplant operation.