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On December 2, 1982, Clark became the world’s first recipient of an artificial heart. He lived for another 112 days, his heart powered by a dishwasher-sized air compressor that he was...
Barney Clark’s heart was made of plastic — and instead of beating, it whooshed. The 61-year-old retired dentist was in an advanced stage of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart...
On March 23, 1983, Barney Clark dies 112 days after becoming the world’s first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. The 61-year-old dentist spent the last four months of his life in a...
On December 1, 1982, William DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into Barney Clark, a retired dentist from Seattle who had severe congestive heart failure. Clark's case was highly publicized and received much media attention, garnering attention from television networks, newspapers and periodicals.
Thirty years ago on Dec. 2, 1982, cardiothoracic surgeon William DeVries, MD, carefully removed the ravaged heart of Dr. Barney Clark and replaced it with the world's first permanent artificial heart.
In December 1982, Dr. Barney B. Clark received the first permanent total artificial heart implant in a human. The implant was his last resort and his last chance of survival after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 1979.
A snowstorm raged outside of the University of Utah Medical Center as Doctor Barney Clark was wheeled into the operating room. He was fading fast from end-stage cardiomyopathy and was scheduled for a historic surgical intervention- the first-ever permanent artificial heart implant.
Dr. Barney B. Clark, the recipient of the world's first permanent artificial heart, died last night at the University of Utah Medical Center, 112 days after the plastic and aluminum device...
At 10:30 p.m. on December 1, 1982, a retired dentist named Barney Clark was wheeled into an operating room at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Clark, who was 61 years...
On December 2, 1982, the fully mechanical Jarvik-7 heart was placed inside Barney Clark, culminating years of painstaking research and making medical history by successfully pumping Clark’s blood for 112 days.