Artificial Organs
Built by the Giants of Medicine, CardioWest Artificial Heart Celebrates 60th Birthday
Published in Blood Weekly, September 27th, 2007
Sixty years ago, Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D., the world's most accomplished and prolific creator of artificial organs, started work that led to the creation of the world's first and only FDA and CE approved temporary artificial heart: the CardioWest(TM) temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t). Besides inventing the artificial heart, Dr. Kolff also invented the artificial kidney, and was instrumental in the development of the artificial eye, artificial ear, artificial arm and the heart-lung machine.
On August 31, Tucson-based SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the TAH-t, loaned the Kolff Museum the modern version of what Kolff started in 1947. The CardioWest...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2007-09-27)
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