Bjork-Shiley Aortic Graft Valve
Bjork-Shiley Aortic Graft Valve
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- cardiology
- artificial heart valve
- date made
- December 1983
- maker
- Shiley Incorporated
- place made
- United States: California, Irvine
- Physical Description
- plastic (container material)
- paper (implantation data card material)
- Dacron, cloth (valve material)
- pyrolytic carbon (valve material)
- Measurements
- container: 4.1 cm x 18.2 cm x 9.4 cm; 1 5/8 in x 7 5/32 in x 3 11/16 in
- valve: 9.4 cm; 3 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 2015.0031.28
- catalog number
- 2015.0031.28
- accession number
- 2015.0031
- model number
- 31 AGV
- serial number
- 10233
- Credit Line
- Gift of Manuel Villafaña
- subject
- Cardiology
- Prosthesis
- Artificial Organs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Artificial Heart Valves
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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