Bjork-Shiley Convexo-Concave Heart Valve
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Shiley Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Björk-Shiley 60-degree mitral Convexo-Concave heart valve has a tilting carbon disk and a Teflon fabric suture ring. The valve ran into problems when the weld joint fractured. This problem was resolved with a free-floating disk.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Irvine
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California, Irvine
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: Shiley Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0439.04
label: accession number
content: 1985.0439
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0439.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Other Terms
content: mitral valve prosthesis, convexo-concave; Surgery, Cardiac; Medicine; Rehabilitation, Prosthetics; Prosthetics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: teflon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 4.445 cm x 6.6675 cm