Soft Shell Mushroom Artificial Heart
date: label: date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: Kolff Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: The Soft Shell Mushroom Total Artificial Heart has an actively opening and closing mushroom-shaped inflow valve. An air sac around the stem of the mushroom when inflated expels the blood from the ventricle during systole. A hard septum is held partly over the left ventricle. Dacron netting is attached to it to constrain the ventricle during systole. The heart was made by Willim Kolff's sons Alfred and Cornelis (Case), and implanted by Dr. Clifford Kwan-Gett in the summer of 1968 at the University of Utah.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Invention
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artificial Hearts
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kwan-Gett, C. S.; Wu Y.; Collan, R.; Jacobsen S.; Kolff W. J.. Total Replacement Artificial Heart and Driving System with Inherent Regulation of Cardiac Output
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Willem J. Kolff, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0035.039.01
label: collector/donor number
content: 5.6.5
label: accession number
content: 1998.0035
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0035.039.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: total artificial heart
label: Object Name
content: heart, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: epoxy (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: dacron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.5 cm x 10 cm x 12 cm; 16 11/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 4 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 16 in; 9.525 cm x 13.97 cm x 40.64 cm