In 1985, patient Michael Drummond and surgeon Jack Copeland made medical history when Drummond became the first patient to survive on an artificial heart while he waited for a suitable transplant heart. Copeland headed the University of Arizona transplant team.
Drummond died after seven weeks on another artificial heart, his second in five years.
The Jarvik artificial heart that kept him alive then is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
