ATS Heart Valve
date: label: date made
content: ca 1992
name: label: maker
content: ATS Medical
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Introduced in 1992 the ATS is a bileaflet or open pivot heart valve. ATS Medical was founded in 1992 by Manny Villafaña, and acquired by Medtronic Inc. in April 2010. One of it's unique features is that it significantly lowers the sound levels caused when the occluder strikes the orifice as the valve closes. This became one of its selling points to doctors and patients. Many recipients of heart valves find the clicking noise of their prosthetic to be annoying and interfering with their sleep.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
label: Subject
content: Health Care
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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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: 2015.0031.55.02
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0031.55.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 30 cm; 3 15/16 in x 11 13/16 in