Aortic Prosthesis Display
date: label: date made
content: after 1963
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This blue cardboard display of 3, Gerbode-Seager tri-leaflet valves has a yellow label with black print which reads "EARLY AORTIC PROSTHESES". Handwritten beneath it reads "HISTORY ON BACK". The valves are attached to the board with sewing string. From left to right: Silastic Cusps re-enforced with Dacron Mesh, Gold-coated cusps, and Silastic cusps. On the back is handwritten information about the valve and the doctor who used them.
label: Description (Brief)
content: "used by Dr. Frank Gerbode / in San Francisco / Dr. O'Brien (?) worked with Dr. Gerbode / at his --- in 1963 / on this valve. / Gold plated / thromboemboli occurred / + valve had to be / clinically ceased."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Another label reads, "Approx 20 used at Presbyterian Med. Center San Francisco. Most had trhombo-embolytic complications. There are two pin holes on either side of the display indicating at one time it hung for viewing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Dr. Frank Gerbode (1907-1984) a native Californian took his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and received his medical degree from Stanford Medical School. He founded the Medical Research Institute and Heart Research Institute at Presbyterian Hospital-Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco. He performed the first successful open heart surgery on the west coast in 1954 at what was then Presbyterian Hospital. He was the head of the Heart Research division at the Research Institute until his death in 1984. See also Gerbode's Modified Buford Rib Spreader accession 1994.0365.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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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: 2015.0031.58
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0031.58
label: accession number
content: 2015.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve, display
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silastic (valve material)
label: Physical Description
content: dacron mesh (valve material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (valve material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 25.1 cm; 3 15/16 in x 9 7/8 in