ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY: THE ABIOCOR HEART On September 13, 2002, mankind reached another technological milestone. Tom Christerson, a patient in Kentucky completed his first year of life sustained by a self-contained artificial heart. The heart, considered the body’s engine, keeps all the other organs working by supplying them with blood and nutrients. All of the body’s organs require blood to function. This means that a product of advanced technology, the plastic and titanium Abiocor heart, is …showed first 75 words of 939 total…

…showed last 75 words of 939 total…somebody”. I agree with Dr. Laman Gray. Success is when you have helped somebody. My family and I remember Barney Clark and the Jarvil-7 artificial heart very well. In 1982, we rooted for Barney Clark in a hospital in Charlottesville Virginia. My father was in that hospital dying of heart disease. Both he and Barney Clark died, however, the Abiocor artificial heart gives us hope that in the future thanks to this technology, many will live.