Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Biomedical engineer Donald P. Shiley (1920-2010) and Viking O. Björk (1918-2009) professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, began working on their artificial valve around 1968. They were intent on developing an improved tilting-disk valve that would work in a narrow aortic root. This aortic valve is a spherical-shaped tilting carbon disk with a woven Teflon sewing ring.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Shiley Incorporated
- date made
- ca 1980
- Credit Line
- Shiley Incorporated
- Physical Description
- carbon (overall material)
- teflon (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.715 cm x 5.08 cm
- Object Name
- cardiology
- aortic valve prosthesis, convexo-concave
- artificial heart valve
- Other Terms
- aortic valve prosthesis, convexo-concave; Surgery, Cardiac; Medicine; Rehabilitation, Prosthetics; Prosthetics
