Heart transplant surgery: Domingo Liotta holding an early artificial heart. Photograph, 1969.
- Date:
- [1969]
- Reference:
- 780400i
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Description
A controversial operation, as the surgeon (Denton A. Cooley) had secretly employed the assistant to a surgeon in another institution (Domingo Liotta, assistant to Michael E. Debakey) to use without permission an experimental artificial heart developed by Liotta and Debakey. The patient died a few days later
Publication/Creation
New York : United Press International, Inc., [1969]
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint ; image and text 24.5 x 15.5 cm
Lettering
4/5/69 Houston, Tex. Dr. Domingo Liotta holds the dacron and silastic four-chambered orthotopic cardiac prosthesis, a mechanical device, the first total replacementof a human heart, that was implanted into the chest of Haskell Karp of Skokie, Ill, 4/4. This is a modification of a working model first developed by Dr Liotta in 1959 in his native Argentina. The new apparatus was worked out by Dr Liotta and Dr Denton Cooley over the past four months. This device will remain in the chest of Mr Karp until a suitable donor of a human heart is located ...
Time and place note
Texas Medical Center, 5 April 1969
Reference
Wellcome Collection 780400i
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Location Status Access Closed stores