During the Barney Clark era, the field was so young (the U barely had ... this information has the potential to be as transformative as the first implant of a total artificial heart in 1982." Q & A ...

Barney Clark’s heart was made of plastic — and instead of beating, it whooshed. The 61-year-old retired dentist was in an advanced stage of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart ...

the site of Barney Clark's 1982 transplant. “Interestingly, the Jarvik 7 is quite similar to the FDA-approved Total Artificial Heart (TAH) that is now owned by SynCardia,” Selzman says.

In 1982, a man named Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 total artificial heart. Doctors removed his failing biological heart ...

On this day in 1982, William C. DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark; the aluminum and plastic device was called the Jarvik-7. Clark lived for 112 days tethered ...

Sometimes, when I was watching various artificial heart experiments in the basement ... like the human experiment that was poor Barney Clark in 1982, became national TV sensations.

Today is the 112 th day. Schrader has lived with an artificial heart. That's as long as Barney Clark, the first artificial heart patient lived 133 days after his artificial heart implant.