Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This artificial heart valve was developed by engineer Robert Kaster (born 1933 ) and Dr. C. Walton Lillehei (1918-1999). Under Lellehei’s direction, Kaster made changes to an earlier design developed by Dr. Antonio Cruz.
- The Lillehei-Kaster valve, clinically introduced in 1969, is a free-floating tilting disk heart valve. It is made with an inner titanium orifice ring with two small inner supports, and two lateral titanium struts extending from the support. The sewing ring is made of Teflon. By 1977 this valve had been implanted in 40,000 patients. The Lillehei-Kaster valve was manufactured by Medical Incorporated of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Dr. Patrick K. C. Chun
- ID Number
- 1981.0731.05
- accession number
- 1981.0731
- catalog number
- 1981.0731.05
- Object Name
- artificial heart valve
- cardiology
- Other Terms
- Surgery
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 8.5725 cm
- place made
- United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Related Publication
- Prosthetic Heart Valves
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Artificial Heart Valves
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Cardiology
- Medicine
- Artificial Organs
- Prosthesis
- Record ID
- nmah_735415
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-2402-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
