Object Details
- Shiley Incorporated
- Description (Brief)
- Biomedical engineer Donald P. Shiley (1920-2010) and Viking O. Björk (1918-2009) professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, began working on their artificial valve around 1968. They were intent on developing an improved tilting-disk valve that would work in a narrow aortic root. This aortic valve is a spherical-shaped tilting carbon disk with a woven Teflon sewing ring.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Shiley Incorporated
- ca 1980
- ID Number
- 1985.0439.02
- accession number
- 1985.0439
- catalog number
- 1985.0439.02
- Object Name
- cardiology
- aortic valve prosthesis, convexo-concave
- artificial heart valve
- Other Terms
- aortic valve prosthesis, convexo-concave; Surgery, Cardiac; Medicine; Rehabilitation, Prosthetics; Prosthetics
- Physical Description
- carbon (overall material)
- teflon (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.715 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Irvine
- location of prior holder
- United States: California, Irvine
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Artificial Heart Valves
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Medicine
- Cardiology
- Prosthesis
- Record ID
- nmah_738047
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5217-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
