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Dog gets first artificial heart
Dog survived for 90 minutes -
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell is granted the first patent for an artificial heart.
Doctors and engineers keep working on the new artificial heart. -
The first successful heart transplant is performed in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr. Christian Barnard.
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Dr. Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute becomes the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in a human subject.
The patient lives on the artificial heart, designed by Dr. Domingo Liotta, for 64 hours, but dies 32 hours after transplantation of a donor heart. -
veterinarian Don Olsen,medical engineer Robert Jarvik, surgeon Dr. William DeVries join Dr. Kolff’s team
The jarvik 5 is almost ready -
Calf “Alfred Lord Tennyson
lives for 268 days on the Jarvik 5 -
: Dr. Copeland becomes the first surgeon to successfully use the Jarvik 7 as a bridge to human heart transplant.
His patient Michael Drummond lives nine days on the Jarvik 7 before receiving a donor heart. -
The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart receives FDA approval, becoming the first TAH to do so.
The official name given to the device through the FDA approval process is the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart.
