Research topic:artificial heart

Pictures from Google Image Search

Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Find more facts and information on our topic page about artificial heart

artificial heart

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

artificial heart see heart, artificial .

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

  • MLA
  • Chicago
  • APA

"artificial heart." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 26 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"artificial heart." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (December 26, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-artifHrt.html

"artificial heart." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-artifHrt.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

NEW BREAKTHROUGHS NEAR ON USING ARTIFICIAL HEARTS.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/9/2000; 700+ words ; ...with more serious heart disease will probably need total artificial hearts instead. The artificial heart -- medicine's...of the artificial heart program. Frazier...000 Americans with artificial hearts. ``I thought...
Tucson, Ariz., Experts Launch Company to Raise Money for Artificial Hearts.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/27/2001; 700+ words ; ...AbioCor totally implantable artificial heart. "Jack is one of the most...in the world in the use of artificial hearts," Emery said. "He was the first to use the artificial heart to successfully bridge someone...
Artificial hearts may give hope to patients in need
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/24/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...an average wait time for a heart transplant being one to two...medicine may change the face of heart surgery in the future, including...solution to the shortage of hearts available and may decrease...July 2, the Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute performed...Heart in Louisville, Ky. ...
Artificial hearts, ventricular devices topics of hotline
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 3/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...source for people whose hearts are failing, allowing...literally keep a human heart beating and prolong life. Detail about artificial hearts and ventricular assist...representative of the Utah Artificial Heart Program at Intermountain...
Portability in works for artificial hearts
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 12/2/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...implanted with an artificial heart can go home...wait for a human-heart transplant. In the United States, artificial hearts and those who need...supply of donor hearts is small and, without a total artificial heart or one of the heart...
Artificial hearts a real thrill to S.L. students
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/23/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...following a demonstration of artificial- heart technology...becoming a staple of artificial-heart technology...000 Americans need a heart transplant each year; only 2,000 to 3,000 hearts become available. Rogers' heart is where it always was...strapped on his waist. The ...
Artificial hearts - imaginative and costly.
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 12/10/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...second permanent artificial heart at once made history...of replaceable hearts that will stave...annual price tag for artificial hearts could be as high...on preventive heart medicine or prenatal...of the National Heart, Lung and Blood...on LVAD's and artificial ...
FDA approves sale of artificial hearts; The 2-pound mechanical hearts would be used only in patients close to death who have no other treatment options
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 9/6/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...fully implantable artificial heart. The 2-pound mechanical hearts would be used...sell the AbioCor artificial hearts, agency...to implant the artificial hearts would take place...remove a person's heart and keep them...
Pills, celebrity doctors and artificial hearts
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 2/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...pioneering claims for the artificial heart. And, yet -- as others...editorial referred to artificial heart experiments as...concerning the Jarvik heart -- from the historic...surgical implantation of an artificial heart, for, "(i...
CMS in landmark coverage decision for artificial hearts.
Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily; 5/5/2008; 700+ words ; ...NCD) status for artificial hearts. This landmark...coverage determination for artificial hearts was issued by the agency...more than 5 million heart failure patients in...of using artificial hearts in patients. And now...AbioCor Total Replacement Heart, and SynCardia ...

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Artificial Hearts
Book article from: American Decades ARTIFICIAL HEARTS At the Heart of the Matter We think of our...temporary device in 1969. These artificial hearts were originally intended as...replacements for a diseased heart. The first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, was...
Artificial Heart
Book article from: How Products Are Made ...were on the national heart transplant list but...transplants. Artificial hearts and pump-assist devices...potential alternatives. An artificial heart maintains the heart...normal capacity. These hearts consist of equipment...pulses the blood between heart beats or use ...
Artificial heart and heart valve
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...organs, including the heart, alive by circulating...artificial or robot heart. The use of artificial hearts as a replacement for an ailing human heart began in 1953. Then...demonstrated that an artificial device could, at least...
Artificial Heart Valve
Book article from: How Products Are Made Artificial Heart Valve Background A heart valve acts...replace damaged heart valves every year. Artificial heart valves consist of an orifice...the orifice. There are two types of artificial heart valves: mechanical devices made...
artificial heart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition artificial heart external or surgically implanted mechanical...danger of stroke from clots formed in the artificial heart and the need for the patient to...Beginning 2001, however, a second type of artificial heart, the AbioCor, was implanted...

Related research topics

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: