ARTIFICIAL HEART.


Kolff, Willem J. Archive of 24 publications on the artificial heart including 18 offprints and 6 autographed items. Includes: 1) Xerographic copy of presentation summary by Kolff and Tetsuzo Akutso, "Permanent substitutes for valves and hearts, 1958. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye from Wm. Kolff"; 2) Testing of artificial heart valves, 1959, offprint; 3) Mock circulation to test pumps designed for permanent replacement of damaged hearts, 1959, offprint; 4) Hemolysis caused by pumps in extracorporeal circulation (in vitro evaluation of pumps), 1959, offprint; 5) Roller type of artificial heart within the chest: Preliminary report, 1960, offprint; 6) Pendulum type of artificial heart within the chest: Preliminary report, 1960, offprint; 7) A mitral valve prosthesis and a study of thrombosis on heart valves in dogs, 1962, offprint; 8) Today the calf, tomorrow man, 1963, offprint; 9) A pneumatically driven sac type of intrathoracic artificial heart, 1964, offprint (3 ring binder holes in inner margin); 10) An artificial heart inside the body, 1965, offprint; 11) Problems with materials used in the intrathoracic artificial heart, 1968, offprint; 12) The artificial heart: Research, development or invention? 1969, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "Wm. Kolff to Dr. Bruce Fye"; 13) Some remarks about hyperbaric oxygen treatment and about artificial organs in the 1970s, 1971, offprint; 14) Removing limiting factors for total cardiac replacement, 1971, offprint; 15) Survival for 18 days with a Jarvik-type artificial heart, 1975, offprint; 16) A three-month survival of a calf with an artificial heart, 1976, offprint; 17) Blood at artificial organ surfaces: Progress to date as stepping-stones for the future, 1977, offprint; 18) Six-month survival of a calf with an artificial heart, 1979, offprint; 19) Artificial organs: Forty years and beyond, 1983, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "Wm. Kolff to Dr. Bruce Fye; 20) Xerographic copy of Lessons learned from Dr. Barney Clark, the first patient with an artificial heart, 1983. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "Dr. Bruce Fye from Wm. Kolff"; 21) William C. DeVries and Lyle D. Joyce [illustrated by Frank Netter], The Artificial Heart. [CIBA] Clinical Symposia (vol. 35, no. 6), 1983, stiff wrappers, 32pp. Netter writes in the foreword, "I was thrilled when Dr. William DeVries asked me to portray this pioneering procedure graphically for posterity. As I became ever more deeply involved in the project, I was impressed by the years of persistent effort by which Dr. Kolff, Jarvik, DeVries and Joyce and their many associates had pursued this vision."; 22) William DeVries, Robert Jarvik, Willem Kolff et al., Clinical use of the artificial heart, 1984, IN: New England Journal of Medicine (February 2, 1984), whole issue in original printed wrappers (the overseas edition printed in England). Very fine; 23) Xerographic copy of Experiences and practical considerations for the future of artificial hearts and of mankind, 1988. SIGNED; 24) Artificial heart, 1991, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "To Dr. Bruce Fye, Wm. Kolff, Nov. 1991, SLC."A unique archive of publications that Kolff identified as major stages in the development of an artificial heart. The first article in the collection, "Permanent substitutes for valves and hearts" (1958), "reports the creation and first application of a total artificial heart (TAH) in an animal model at the Cleveland Clinic in December of 1957 ... Dr. DeBakey soon started research efforts with heart assist devices and artificial hearts ... The first implantation of a permanent TAH (Jarvik-7) was performed by Jarvik and colleagues in 1982 ... This initial clinical experience was based to a great extent on the pioneering work of Willem Kolff, who was one of the authors of [Clinical use of the artificial heart]" (Stephenson and Ruggiero, Heart Surgery Classics, Boston, 1994, pp 339-352).