William Castle Devries
1943-
American Surgeon
On December 2, 1982, Dr. William C. DeVries successfully implanted the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, a plastic and titanium pump powered by compressed air, i...
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William DeVries (born 1943) performed the first artificial heart transplant on a human patient.Dr. William DeVries and his surgical team at the University of Utah Medical Center made medical history a...
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