Heart of Carbon

Timeline of Events/Overview.- Nuclear Foundations.- Origin and Characterization of Medical Carbons.- Gott's Early Experience - A Lesson in Serendipity.- First Carbon Heart Valve Replacement.- First All-Carbon Mitral Valve Replacement.- Monoleaflet Tilting Disc Valves.- First Bileaflet Valve: St Jude Medical Start-up.- General Atomic Medical Products Division.- Carbomedics Gets Acquainted With Intermedics.- Carbomedics Moves to Austin Texas.- The Hemex Venture.- The St Jude Medical Litigation.- Broadening the Horizon.- Two Valves for China.- Negotiating Chinese Joint Venture.- European Company Buys Intermedics.- Medtronic Venture: Carbon Implants.- The Agreement.- Medtronic Clinical Trial.- Medical Carbon Research Institute/On-X Life Technologies.- Valve Design.- Clinical Trials.- Design Validation.- Studies Concurrent With FDA Trials.- Understanding Cardiac Blood Flow.- Investigating the Viability of Bioprostheses.- On-X Valve Implantability.- Selling the On-X Valve.- The Video.- Cryolife Buys On-X Life Technologies.- Mervyn Williams' South African Trial Results.- Summary and Reflections.

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• Medicina cardiovascular
• Ciências da vida: temas gerais
• Engenharia biomédica
• Cirurgia cardiotorácica
• Mecânica dos fluidos

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