The first recipient of an artificial heart, Barney Clark, a Seattle-area dentist, lived 112 days after receiving a Jarvik-7 in 1982. William Schroeder of Jasper, Ind., lived longest with a ...

Robert Jarvik, who developed the first artificial heart to be permanently ... a surgical team led by William DeVries replaced the ailing heart of Barney Clark, a 61-year-old dentist from Seattle ...

Jarvik was one of the designers of the first permanent artificial heart ... a permanent artificial heart in a human. On Dec. 2, 1982, Dr. William C. DeVries led the surgical team that implanted the ...

It was implanted in Barney Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist ... newer versions like the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart have been implanted in more than 1,700 people worldwide, mostly ...

Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human ... Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. Clark at first declined to receive the Jarvik-7, DeVries was ...

Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human ... in a 61-year-old retired Seattle dentist, Barney B. Clark. Clark at first declined to receive ...

It was implanted in Barney Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist ... Although the original Jarvik-7 was eventually replaced, newer versions like the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart have been implanted ...