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RCB

RCB

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Several weeks ago, I saw a TV show that interviewed the editor of "The
National Geographic Society"(NGS) explaining how they plan 5 years in advance for their stories. Next week on the 14th and 15th is the 45th anniversary of the first two heart valve surgeries.

Dwight Harkin on the 14th implanted the first prosthetic aortic valve.
http://members.evansville.net/ict/valve-harken1.htm
http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/residents/pioneerinterviews/article-1.html

On the 15th Nina Braunwald implanted the first prosthetic mitral valve.
http://members.evansville.net/ict/valve-braunwaldpoly.htm

She is my kind of women!
http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/71/2_suppl/S6

There were others- Starr/Edwards/LeFrak(The surgeon/friend of our distinguished member, Marty)
http://www.tmc.edu/thi/starr.html
http://members.evansville.net/ict/valve-firststarr.htm

My personal saviours-Kay/Zimmerman
http://www.svch.net/press_111104_stluke.asp
http://members.evansville.net/ict/valve-kay.htm

In five years, it will be the 50th anniversary of the event that most of us owe our very life to!

May I request that all members and guest join with me in writing to NGS
and ask them to consider doing a story on the 50th anniversary of heart valves. A short Google search should provide you with many interesting URLs and statistics about heart valves to include in your email or letter. Let us all
start writing to make the 50th anniversary, something we all can take part in.

Here is how you can contact them:

USPS;
The Editor
National Geographic Society
1145 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-4688

Email;
[email protected]
 
Thanks!

Thanks!

RCB, These are truly wonderful referances. You really span the history of valve surgery. My K street doctors wanted me to have my surgery at the Cleveland Clinic or Johns Hopkins. I chose Inova Fairfax because my friend Ed Lefrak was there, it was 10 miles from my house, and had good parking for visitors.
Ed is a very modest guy and never blows his own horn. I only found out later that he is one of the a great mitral surgeons, training seven years with DeBakey, and then with Starr. He graduated from IU med.My professor of surgery at Indiana Harris B. Shumacker was trained by Blalock at Hopkins and came to Indiana in 1948 to start the heart surgery program. In 1992 he published a fine book that I have , entitled " The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery"and on page 308 notes Lefraks work with Starr and that he published a splendid monograph on how the Starr-Edwards pioneer mitral valve was built and modified. I do not regret my choice of hospital or surgeon.
 
50th Anniversary

50th Anniversary

What y'all ought to do is to enlist Dr. Jack Bokros, the father of medical pyrolytic carbon (what most mechanical heart valves are made of, and the inventor of the new On-X heart valve--a huge step forward in heart valve design and materials--and let him weigh in on this project. He is at Medical Carbon Research Institute in Austin, Texas, and their phone number is: 1 (888)-339-8000. No one on the planet knows more about mechanical heart valves than him, and (although he's an engineer)...he's a hoot! Oh...and he's quite passionate as engineers go!! By the way...he also discovered On-X Carbon, the newest material that the On-X valve is made of, and one of the primary reasons it is so forgiving in poorly compliant patients.

Just a thought!
 
Another year has past- another request

Another year has past- another request

My fellow VR.com members and guests,

We are rapidly approaching the 46th anniversary of the first successful artificial heart valve implant on March 14th. The story is above. We all owe a lot to the pioneering surgeons Harkin and Braunwald. Last years I ask for you help in contacting National Geographic to suggest that they do a story on the 50th anniversary of heart valve surgery. This year I would like to lobby for a video production on the same topics. The reason I picked NOVA is because they do a great job on history and medical subjects. Also, these first two surgeries took place in Boston hospitals, so it would make sense that they would want to promote their own city.

Won’t you please join me in writing a short note to the email address below or to the postal address below and tell them how important to the 90,000 plus Americans per year, Drs. Harkin and Braunwald 50th anniversary is and should be commemorated by a NOVA production.

[email protected]

or snail mail to:
NOVA
WGBH Educational Foundation
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
 
Your not the only one, Rob

Your not the only one, Rob

RobHol said:
Will put in my two cents. Great idea!
Click to expand...

I sent a number of blind copies of my email request to NOVA and guess
who wrote back with a personal note. The great Dr. Albert Starr!
He said NOVA is a great idea and he would be glad to help.

I hope you all will take the time to write NOVA, so they can get the good doctor on video and make a record of the man who has help us all to live
a full life!
 
I sent mine in yesterday. Now lets hope. I threatened them with nudity and carnage if they didn't cooperate.
 
accessing stories from members who have had oh surgery

accessing stories from members who have had oh surgery

I am having trouble finding out how to access the stories of members who have had surgery and tell their stories. I know you are a veteran and will know. Thanks in advance. innercalm:
 
We are composing out letter now. Will send in a day or two.

Thank you for this great idea and your research.

Ann:)
 
Like PBS a pledge drive

Like PBS a pledge drive

Again I am asking our VR.comers and guests to write in support of the 50th anniversary of heart valve replacment surgery. This time it is for a commemorative stamp. Send in your ideas and general support-who knows
they may pick your idea! You may read about it here, but hurry because there is a three year lead time and 2010 is coming up rapidly:
https://hdusps.esecurecare.net/cgi-...9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1&p_sid=tXtmo8bi&xssl=1

For those who would rather write, than read:

CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
1735 N LYNN ST STE 5013
ARLINGTON VA 22209-6432

I'm suggesting a picture of a simple Starr-Edwards ball valve, because it was the first to save so many people and it would honor Dr. Starr who can't be on the stamp because he is still alive and operating- just ask our member George!
 
sent

sent

:eek: Sorry I didn't see this sooner but my request and ideas were sent asap
 
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