Chase Peterson, university vice president for health sciences.ĭeVries said the artificial heart was removed from Clark's body during an autopsy today and is being studied for signs of stress. "It is fair to say the artificial heart works well," said Dr. The heart, driven by two long air hoses attached to a movable compressor, operated for 2,688 hours and beat approximately 12,912,400 times in 112 days.
He and other doctors at the University of Utah indicated that more patients would receive artificial hearts here after a few weeks of review and an updating of the hospital's consent form. The kidneys, lungs and brain quickly followed, all starved by blood vessels whose walls were too weak to carry oxygen and nutrients to them.ĭeVries, the surgeon who implanted the device in the Seattle dentist when Clark's real heart failed-it had been transformed by disease into "tissue paper"-told reporters today that both he and Clark considered the experiment a success to the end. Then his brain failed and, lastly, when the key was turned off, his heart failed," the doctor said.Ĭlark's colon was hit by a massive infection apparently caused by antibiotics. Clark signed an 11-page consent form before undergoing the historic procedure, agreeing to face every possible dire consequence of the transplant, and before he died at 10:02 p.m. Clark's plastic and metal heart worked like new, pumping blood at a steady beat to a body that was dead all around it.ĭoctors eulogized the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart today as "a remarkable man, a pioneer to match these western lands."ĭr.
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