Cardiac Aortic Valve Prosthesis
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: Omniscience
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a teaching model of an Omniscience aortic artificial heart valve. It is 23mm and it has a titanium cage and Pyrolyte disk.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In an article which appeared in the <i>Annals of Thoracic Surgery</i>, the “Evolution of Mechanical Heart Valves”, Richard DeWall refers to the Omniscience valve as a “direct descendant” of the Lillehei-Kaster free-floating valve prosthesis.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
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: Arthur A. Ciarkowski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0337.05
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0337.05
label: accession number
content: 2003.0337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: valve, aortic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 6.985 cm x 7.3025 cm