"First Artificial Heart Transplant" William DeVries Hand Signed TLS Todd Mueller for Sale

"First Artificial Heart Transplant" William DeVries Hand Signed TLS Todd Mueller For Sale

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"First Artificial Heart Transplant" William DeVries Hand Signed TLS Todd Mueller:
$299.99

Up for sale the "First Artificial Heart Transplant" William DeVries Hand Signed TLS from 1991. This item iscertified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity.
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William CastleDeVries (born December19, 1943) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for the first transplant of a TAH (totalartificial heart) using the Jarvik-7model. In1979 Doctor DeVries went back to the University of Utah to become the chairmanof thoracic and cardiovascular surgery; there, he used to perform two to fiveopen-heart operations a week At that time the university was known for beingone of the country's few pioneering centers for advanced surgery on vitalorgans and their transplanting and implanting into animals and humans[9] In Salt Lake City he worked with doctor Robert Jarvik and doctor Kolff. By the time DeVrieswas back to Salt Lake City, the calves with artificial heart were able to live upto six, seven, even eight months. These results inspired him to take on withthe work and so he started a series of long-term animal experiments. After twoyears of experiments, doctor DeVries and his colleagues tried to obtain theU.S. Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) and the NationalInstitutes of Health(NIH) approval. At the beginning, nobody really paid much consideration to thework, but after a while it started to acquire new attention, things changed,and even the NIH started to be interested in the project. Therefore, DeVriesstarted to look for a suitable patient for the first attempt. In 1982, the FDAgave the approval to experiment the device on a human, and so a panel of sixmembers at the University of Utah Medical Center started searching fora patient. The group was composed of two cardiologists, a psychiatrist, a nurse, a socialworker and DeVries; the decision had to be unanimous.