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William J. Schroeder (February 14, 1932 – August 7, 1986), was one of the first recipients of an artificial heart. Schroeder was born in Jasper, Indiana, and was a Sergeant in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1966. [1] On November 25, 1984, at the age of 52, became the second human recipient of the Jarvik 7.
Peter Houghton (20 August 1938 – 25 November 2007) was the longest surviving artificial heart transplant patient in the UK. [1] [2]Houghton was implanted with a Jarvik 2000 heart pump at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, by professor Stephen Westaby, on 20 June 2000 owing to severe heart failure.
An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart.Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation surgery, but research is ongoing to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a deceased genetically engineered pig) is unavailable ...
The recipient Thomas Creighton, who was dying from a failing heart, survived the artificial heart operation and 11 hours later a human heart was transplanted. The cause of death less than two days afterwards was not due to the artificial heart. Cheng had fled China with his family at the age of four, spent his childhood and completed his ...
William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard.His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant who died in combat on the destroyer USS Kalk (DD-611) in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia, [1] where he had enrolled as a naval surgeon.
Vladimir P. Demikhov was born on July 31, 1916, [4] into a family of Russian peasants living on a small farmstead in the northern part of Russia's Volgograd region. [5] His father, Peter Yakovlevich Demikhov was killed during the Russian Civil War when Demikhov was about three years old, [1] [5] so he and his brother and sister were raised by their mother, Domnika Alexandrovna, who managed to ...
Kolff studied medicine in his hometown at Leiden University, and continued as a resident in internal medicine at Groningen University. One of his first patients was a 22-year-old man who was slowly dying of chronic kidney failure. [2] This prompted Kolff to perform research on artificial renal function replacement.
His first book, One Life, was published in 1969 (ISBN 0245599525) and sold copies worldwide. Some of the proceeds were used to set up the Chris Barnard Fund for research into heart disease and heart transplants in Cape Town. [74] His second autobiography, The Second Life, was published in 1993, eight years before his death (ISBN 0947461388).