Beall Surgitool Mitral Valve
date: label: date made
content: after 1967
name: label: maker
content: Travenol Laboratories Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This 34.2mm Beall Surgitool Mitral Valve is a free floating titanium disk held in place by two struts. The titanium base is covered in Dacron velour. The Beall mitral valve was developed by Dr. Arthur C. Beall, Jr. (1929-2002) around 1960. Beall received his medical degree in 1953 from Emory University, and did his residency at Baylor from 1954-1959 under Dr. Michael DeBakey. Beall was inducted into the Michael E. DeBakey Legacy of Leadership honoree.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
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: Leona R. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0106.11
label: model number
content: 5M5011
label: serial number
content: BS 8099
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0106.11
label: accession number
content: 2007.0106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Object Name
content: valve
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: dacron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: teflon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: titanium (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 in x 3 in; 3.175 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm