Bjork-Shiley Heart Valve Prosthesis
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: associated person
content: Clark, Barney
label: maker
content: Shiley Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon Viking O. Björk (1918-2009) had experience with the implantation of many different artificial heart valves at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, before he teamed up with biomedical engineer Donald P. Shiley (1920-2010). Together they designed a new heart valve prosthesis. This aortic artificial valve was a spherical-shaped tilting carbon disk with a woven Teflon sewing ring. They began testing their valve in 1968 and were ready for the first human implantation in January 1969.
label: Description
content: Viking Bjork (1918-2009) was a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon who had experience with the implantation of many types of artificial heart valves at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Donald P. Shiley (1920-2010), an American biomedical engineer. Working together, the two men designed a tilting disc heart valve—which, unfortunately, fractured when implanted in at least 389 people. Later models proved much more robust. Shiley Inc. donated this improved example to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Description
content: Ref: Roxane Arnold, “Inventor at 60 Proves You Gotta Have Heart,” Los Angeles Times (June 16, 1981), p. E1, E2, and E4.
label: Description
content: Barry Meier, “Designer of Faulty Heart Valve Seeks Redemption in New Device,” New York Times (April 17, 1990), p. C1.
label: Description
content: “Donald P. Shiley dies at 90; co-inventor of Bjork-Shiley heart valve,” Los Angeles Times (Aug. 7, 2010), p.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Irvine
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California, Irvine
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Artificial Heart Valves
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Shiley Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0439.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0439
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0439.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: aortic valve prosthesis, spherical
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Other Terms
content: aortic valve prosthesis, spherical; Surgery, Cardiac; Medicine; Rehabilitation, Prosthetics; Prosthetics
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 in x 2 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.715 cm