Kevin K. Cheng
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Kevin K. Cheng
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Kevin K. Cheng, developed the Phoenix total artificial heart, first used in a human in 1985 in an emergency in a person whose donor heart was being acutely rejected. Cheng was a dentist by profession and the Phoenix heart he designed was originally developed to be implanted into a young cow. The recipient Thomas Creighton, who was dying from a failing heart, survived the artificial heart operation and 11 hours later a human heart was transplanted. The cause of death less than two days afterwards
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Chinese-American doctor and author
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_K._Cheng
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2024-04-25T00:49:47Z
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