Lillehei-Kaster Pivoting Disk Heart Valve
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Artificial Heart Valves
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content: Health & Medicine
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Prosthetic Heart Valves
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Patrick K. C. Chun
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0731.05
label: accession number
content: 1981.0731
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0731.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 8.5725 cm