Object Details
- Description
- An Edwards Sapien Transcatheter Heart Valve encased in clear plastic atop a plastic metallic silver-colored stand. This item could be used a a paperweight, an advertisement, or to show patients what their artificial heart valve would look like.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Edwards Lifesciences LLC
- Credit Line
- Gift of Roni Lynn Polisar
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- heart valve: 11 cm x 7.2 cm x 8 cm; 4 11/32 in x 2 27/32 in x 3 5/32 in
- box: 10.5 cm x 14.1 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 5 9/16 in x 5 5/16 in
- Object Name
- paper weight
- Sapien Globes
- cardiology
- artificial heart valve
