Schimert-Cutter Heart Valve
date: label: date made
content: ca 1967
name: label: maker
content: Cutter Laboratories, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Schimert-Cutter valve also known as the "Toilet Seat" valve dates to 1967/1968. It is 29 mm in diameter with serial number 656R. According to donor Manuel “Manny” Villafaña, this valve was never implanted and never went into production because it does not always close properly, a significant structural issue.
label: Description
content: Dr. George Schimert (1918-2000) was born in Switzerland, grew up in Budapest, Hungary, and received his medical degrees from Pazmany Peter University in Hungary, and Freidrich Wilhelm University in Germany. Cutter Laboratories founded by Edward Ahern Cutter in 1897 was a family-owned pharmaceutical company in Berkeley, California.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Berkeley
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Manuel Villafaña
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0031.47
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0031.47
label: accession number
content: 2015.0031
label: serial number
content: 656R
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (valve material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (valve material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (valve material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 3.6 cm; 7/16 in x 1 13/32 in