Object Details
- Liotta, Domingo
- Description
- This is the first total artificial heart implanted in a human body. It was developed by Domingo Liotta and implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley (1920-2016) on April 4, 1969, at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. The recipient, Haskell Karp, lived for sixty-four hours with the artificial heart pumping oxygenated blood through his body until a human heart was available for transplant.
- Although Karp died soon after receiving a real heart, and some criticized the surgery as unethical because it was without formal review by the medical community, the procedure demonstrated the viability of artificial hearts as a bridge to transplant in cardiac patients.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Texas Heart Institute
- 1969
- ID Number
- 1978.1002.01
- accession number
- 1978.1002
- catalog number
- 1978.1002.01
- Object Name
- artificial heart
- heart, artificial
- Physical Description
- dacron (overall material)
- polyurethane (overall material)
- silastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall, as stored: 7 1/2 in x 9 in x 6 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm x 16.51 cm
- overall: 18.7 cm x 22.8 cm x 16.4 cm; 7 3/8 in x 8 31/32 in x 6 15/32 in
- place made
- United States: Texas, Houston
- Related Publication
- Cooley, D. A.; Liotta, D.; Hallman, G. L.; Bloodwell, R. D.; Leachman, R. D.; Milam, J. D.. Orthotopic Cardiac Prosthesis for Two-Staged Cardiac Replacement
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- National Treasures exhibit
- Artificial Hearts
- Exhibition
- First Do No Harm
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Cardiology
- Surgery
- Cardiology
- Surgery
- Health Care
- Artificial Organs
- Record ID
- nmah_688682
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-f67f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
