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Barney Clark

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Barney Clark
A dentist and the first recipient of a completely artificial heart, the Jarvik 7; the operation was performed by cardiovascular surgeon William de Vries in Salt Lake City. Clark died of renal failure after having the heart for 112 days; at autopsy, he had pseudomembranous colitis


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Richard Smith, MSEE, CCE, has been named the recipient of the Barney Clark Award by the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs.
These patients include Lou Gehrig (whose name became eponymous with a disease), Barney Clark (recipient of the first permanent artificial heart), Lorenzo Odone (subject of the movie Lorenzo's Oil), and AIDS activists.
 
 
 
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