# Have there been 1,993 Jarviks?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 27, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-1-993-jarviks/55995 "2001-02-27T00:55:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnson)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-1-993-jarviks/55995/1 "2001-02-27T00:55:55Z")

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I was going to ask a question about the apparent demise of artificial hearts, since they never make the news anymore. A quick search of GQ yielded one irrelevant thread; not wanting to incur the wrath of **DDG** , a Google search yielded some surprising news–apparently the Jarvik 2000 heart is very promising as a long-term treatment (perhaps because of the adoption of Microsoft naming conventions?).

My question has now morphed into how many Jarviks have there been (besides Mr. & Mrs.), and how many individuals have received any of the variations?

[sub]Should I ask Marilyn?[/sub]

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**Author:** ![johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnson)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-1-993-jarviks/55995/2 "2001-02-27T00:59:52Z")

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no offense intended, **DDG**.