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Article: Edwards celebrates four decades of heart valves

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September 25, 2000
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Delta Expands Dental Coverage to Military Retirees

The 40th anniversary of an event that some consider to be the seminal one in Orange County's biomedical history came this past week.

On Sept. 21, 1960, the Starr-Edwards artificial mechanical heart valve was implanted into a 52-year-old Oregon farmer at the University of Oregon Medical School. The device came out of the Santa Ana laboratory of Miles "Lowell" Edwards, an electrical engineer by trade.

Edwards had been trying to build an artificial heart since 1958, shortly after he retired from a career as a fluid dynamics engineer. His interest in heart problems came from battling two rheumatic fever episodes during his adolescence.

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