Prof. Dr. Domingo Liotta
Achievements in the Research of the Artificial Heart and the Circulatory Assistance

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Laboratory Research on animals:

1960
Development of 3 prototypes of Total Artificial Heart. National University of Córdoba.

1982
Univentricular Artificial Heart. Prosthesis of Left Ventricular Assistance implanted in the thoracic wall (Chest-Wall LVAD). Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, University of Utah, Department of Artificial Organs, Salt Laice City, Utah, USA.

Clinic Research:

1963
First Artificial Left Ventricle (Intrathoracic) in the human being. Original Prototype in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.

1966
First Artificial Left Ventricle (paracorporeal) in the human being. Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.

1969
First Artificial Heart (orthotopic) in the human being. School of Medicine of Baylor University, Houston, Texas. Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA. Original Prototype, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

1993
Left Artificial Ventricle energized with skeletal muscle. PROCOAR Program-CONlCET.

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