Q. Jarvic-7 is the name of:

A
Artificial lungs
B
Artificial heart
C
Artificial kidney
D
None of these
Solution:
  • An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart.

  • Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant is impossible.

  • Although other similar inventions preceded it from the late 1940s, the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7 in 1982, designed by a team including Willem Johan Kolff and Robert Jarvik.

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