# AbioCor, the Jarvik 7, and...any others?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abiocor-the-jarvik-7-and-any-others/133918>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 25, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abiocor-the-jarvik-7-and-any-others/133918 "2002-10-25T23:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abiocor-the-jarvik-7-and-any-others/133918/1 "2002-10-25T23:20:17Z")

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Pardon my posting, but I was wondering…as the post title says, were there any other models of artificial hearts tested in humans besides the old Jarvik 7 and the new AbioCor hearts? I seem to remember hearing about a couple over te years, but I could very easily be wrong.

Well, thanks for your time,  
Ranchoth

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abiocor-the-jarvik-7-and-any-others/133918/2 "2002-10-26T06:08:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \*  
> \*\*Pardon my posting  
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That’s what I’ll be saying once a real MD surgeon/research scientist shows up.

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> The Jarvik-7 was first used during the early-1980s. However, earlier artificial hearts date back to the mid-1950s. In 1957, a team of scientists, led by Willem Kolff, a Dutch-born physician, tested their model in animals to identify problems. In 1969, a team led by Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute successfully kept a human patient alive for more than sixty hours with their model. During the years that followed, the notion of a permanent, rather than temporary, implantation began to take hold.

[http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/fake.html](http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/fake.html)

(I was reluctant to even use that quote because of the ‘fake.html’ file name. Yet the page seems legit - at least as much as [snopes.com](http://snopes.com) would be)  
(Also I love the beating heart GIF at the bottom of afore-mentioned page, and the inviting Back to Invasive Procedures link)

[This is from HowStuffWorks.com and is mostly about the AbioCor](http://www.howstuffworks.com/artificial-heart.htm)

So clearly, the move has steered back to ‘quasi-temporary’ hearts that buy time till a replacement donated heart can be attained.

I could not find much more information. My WAG is that current artificial heart research is a) lucrative and thus b) secretive and likely c) controversial (PETA comes to mind)

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**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abiocor-the-jarvik-7-and-any-others/133918/3 "2002-10-26T06:59:24Z")

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My bet is that the fake.html referred to “fake hearts”.