Aortic Valve Delivery System
date: label: date made
content: ca 2016
name: label: maker
content: Edwards Lifesciences LLC
notes: label: Description
content: Alain Cribier (1945-2024), a French cardiologist, developed a device for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, for the relief of aortic stenosis (calcified valve tissue), in the late 1990s. The first animal studies were performed in 2000, and the first human implantation in 2002. In 2004, Edwards Lifesciences bought PVT, the firm begun by Dr. Cribier and his colleagues, and brought the new technique to the United States. Further development led to a version termed the Edwards Sapien. This Edwards Lifesciences Commander Delivery System was designed to transport an Edwards SAPIEN 3 heart valve through the femoral artery to the heart.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Heart Valve Implants Using Catheter and Cow,” New York Times (June 22, 2015), pp. A1 and A9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Medical Procedure- Surgery
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edwards Lifesciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0195.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0195
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0195.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: delivery system
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 in x 2 in; 152.4 cm x 5.08 cm