Bokros Carbomedics On-X Bileaflet Valve
date: label: date made
content: after 1996
label: year model introduced
content: 1996
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Bokros Carbomedics On-X Bileaflet Valve was developed by Dr. Jack Bokros PhD, a nuclear engineer in collaboration with Dr. Vincent Gott, a pioneering cardiac surgeon who spent thirty-five years training surgeons at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Together Bokros and Gott pioneered the use of pyrolytic carbon in the development of artificial valves.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pyrolytic carbon quickly became the 'gold standard' in the manufacture of heart valves, and today remains the most accepted material for the construction of mechanical prosthesis. Although valves utilizing carbon still require anticoagulation therapy for prevention of thrombosis its strengths, highly biocompatible, pure carbon surface create an ability to reduce turbulence to the blood and increases blood flow. .
label: Description (Brief)
content: Gott later became involved with the development of the first all-carbon bi-leaflet valve, the St. Jude artificial heart valve. Bokros went on to establish Carbomedics Incorporated and On-X Life Technologies. In the 1990s, his company was responsible for fabricating pyrolyte for more than 2 million valves, worldwide.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Austin
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Artificial Heart Valves
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Manuel Villafaña
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0031.37
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0031.37
label: accession number
content: 2015.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pyrolytic carbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 2.5 cm; 15/32 in x 31/32 in