Stephen Westaby
Professor Stephen Westaby is a British heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.[1] He won the award of Midlander of the Year in 2002.
Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electric heart pump in the world.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Heart surgeon does pioneering op" BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
- ^ "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
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