Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026
The artificial heart.
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Ciba Symp., 35, No. 6. 1983 CE.
First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failure. The surgery took place on December 2, 1982; Clark lived for 112 days after the surgery. The Ciba Symposia issue was extensively illustrated by Frank Netter,
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #12230 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/14444 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | the-artificial-heart |