Valve, cardiac
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- OBJECT TYPE
- aortic/human tissue
- DATE
- 1978
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0772.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- homograft prosthetic valve
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- human tissue
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 5.1 cm
- Width
- 4.8 cm
- Height
- 4.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- This type first used in 1955. This example prepared in 1978.
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. This type of valve first used in a human by Dr. Gordon Murray in 1955 at the Toronto General Hospital. This valve was exhibited at TTH Cardiovascular Surgery exhibit organised by Dr. W.G. Bigelow. The exhibit's purpose was to demonstrate Dr. Gordon Murray's use of free aortic homografts. [Ref. 3] - Function
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Unknown - Technical
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Human aortic valve, including resected aortic root, three leaflets, and base of heart with left ventricular opening; one coronary ostia. [Ref. 3] - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None evident. Tag tied to valve reads ""994.1.2/ Homograft/ valve, 1978/ (taken from/ recently diceased [sic] human, freeze/ dried.)" and "994.1.2/ 1st used in/ human by/ Gordon Murray/ in 1955 at/ T G H. "
- Missing
- Unknown.
- Finish
- Natural human tissue, freeze dried.
- Decoration
- N/A
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