How would the minds of Barney Clark and William Schroeder - the first recipients of heart transplants - talk with their plastic and steel contraption called the
Jarvik-7? Othello could have been talking about Clark or Schroeder when he described his suffering: "My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand." Faiz Ahmad Faiz, perhaps the greatest Urdu poet of the past century, wrote a poem about his own heart attack in 1967.
The plastic-and-aluminum device, known as the
Jarvik-7, was attached to a 400-pound air compressor and kept a heart failure patient alive for 112 days.
25, 1984, William Schroeder of Jasper, Indiana, became the second man to receive a
Jarvik-7 artificial heart, at Humana Hospital Audubon in Kentucky.
Bridge to transplantation with the
Jarvik-7 (CardioWest) total artificial heart: a single-center 15-year experience.
College-level readers will appreciate the survey of biomedical advances, social and cultural changes in the perception of organ transplantation, and the history of the
Jarvik-7 artificial heart in the U.S.
The CardioWest is an iteration of the original
Jarvik-7 while AbioCor is built on thorasic units, both TAH are in principal perform the same function: to ensure the blood is pumped as to how a biological heart would function.
Upon request, Winchell donated his patent to the institution, and Jarvik's
Jarvik-7 artificial heart device was implanted in a human, dentist Barney Clark, for the first time in 1982.
Robert Jarvik earned his doctorate from the University of Utah, where he developed the
Jarvik-7 artificial heart after graduation.
The total artificial heart is a modern version of the
Jarvik-7 artificial heart pioneered in the 1980s.
In November 1986, a patient received a
Jarvik-7 artificial heart and was supported for two days before undergoing a heart transplant.
William DeVries, MD, a renowned cardio-thoracic surgeon who performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation (on Barney Clark), using the
Jarvik-7 model; Carl Soderstrom, M.D., an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Senior Staff Member of the school's National Study Center for Trauma & EMS in Baltimore; Klaus Philipsen, AIA, President and CEO of ArchPlan, Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, in Baltimore.
The device represented an advance on the
Jarvik-7 heart implanted in Barney Clark in 1982, which was powered by a large air pump connected to the heart pump with tubes inserted through the skin.