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Mit: Invention of the Week: Robert Jarvik: Artificial Heart

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Read about Robert Koffler Jarvik, the "inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart." This article provides a biography of the inventor, the reasons why he became interested in creating an artificial heart, and his first patient to receive the heart, called the Jarvik 7.

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artificial heart, artificial hearts, heart disease patients, heart inventions, heart transplant, jarvik 7, lemelson-mit, robert jarvik, waiting for heart transplant, medical technologies
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