Total artificial heart (Jarvik-7)
Corazón artificial total (Jarvik-7)
- Date
- 1982 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
- Credited to
- Robert Jarvik, Willem Kolff; implanted by William DeVries in Barney Clark on 2 December 1982; Denton Cooley (Liotta, 1969, temporary)
- People
- 👤 Denton Cooley1920–2016👤 Robert Jarvik1946–2025👤 Willem Johan Kolff1911–2009
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Polyurethane pump driven by compressed air that completely replaced a patient's heart for 112 days. It paved the way for circulatory assist devices.
What it led to
- Ventricular assist devices as a bridge to transplant
- Bioethical debates over quality of life and human experimentation
- Today's artificial hearts (SynCardia, Carmat)
Built on
- Artificial kidney (hemodialysis)1943–1945
- Heart-lung machine and open-heart surgery1953
- dialysis (Kolff)
- polyurethane
Made possible
- ventricular assist devices
- Carmat artificial heart