1969 COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); LIOTTA, Domingo Santo (1924 – )

Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.

The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…

GMN 7810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9982

1983 DEVRIES, William Castle (1943 – ); JOYCE, Lyle D.

The artificial heart.

First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failur…

GMN 12230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14444

1984 KOLFF, Willem Johann (1911 – 2009); DEVRIES, William Castle (1943 – ); JOYCE, Lyle D.; JARVIK, Robert Koffler (1946 – )

Clinical use of the total artificial heart.

"Abstract "We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The heart [Jarvik-7] was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with chroni…

GMN 12231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14445

2018 MCKELLAR, Shelley (1967 – )

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

GMN 10186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12375