Oregon Experience

Oregon’s Pioneering Hearts (18x2)

Date de diffusion: Déc 11, 2023

In 1958 retired engineer, M. Lowell Edwards, approached cardiac surgeon, Dr. Albert Starr, with an idea to build an artificial heart. Agreeing to tackle the project one heart valve at a time, Starr and Edwards embarked on an unexpected collaboration that would result in a revolutionary breakthrough in cardiac surgery -- the invention of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve.