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The Artificial Heart

By BiscutMix43

  • First Designs of Artificial Heart are Made

    Medical Discoveries
    In 1935, a French surgeon named Alexis Carrel and an American pilot called Charles Lindbergh designed a pump made to keep your heart running and pumping.

  • First Artificial Heart is Created and Tested

    Medical Discoveries
    The first completely artificial heart was implanted in a dog at the Cleveland Clinic. Willem Kolff and T. Akutsu performed the surgery.

  • A New Heart Called "Pneumatically-Driven" Because of it's Air Component

    Medical Discoveries
    Michael DeBakey designed and put in a new heart that was worked by air pressure with a component called a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in 1966.

  • Another Implant Accomplished

    WikipediaDomingo Liotta and Denton A. Cooley replaced a dying man's heart with a mechanical heart inside the chest at The Texas Heart Institute in Houston as a bridge for a transplant. The patient woke up and recovered well. After 64 hours, the pneumatic-powered artificial heart was removed and replaced by a donor heart. However thirty-two hours after surgery, the patient died of what was later proved to be an infection, extended to both lungs, caused by fungi.

  • The Jarvik-7

    Medical Discoveries
    The Jarvik-7 was designed for full use as a complete replacment for a heart. The device was a pump made of plastic and titanium powered by compressed air.

  • New Artificial Hearts on the Way

    Medical Discoveries
    Current research focuses on a new generation of electrically-powered artificial hearts. These devices use portable battery packs to transmit power with radio signals.

  • Success in China

    34-year-old Ding Xiaolan has been implanted with an artificial heart, giving him another chance to live.

  • More Progress made in China

    34-year-old Ding Xiaolan has survived eight months after being implanted with an artificial heart, the longest lifespan of patients in Asia.

  • The First FDA Approved Heart

    Wikpedia
    The SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart manufactured by SynCardia Systems, Inc. was the first FDA-approved total artificial heart. It received FDA approval and was ready to begin being used.