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This introduction focuses on the role of the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Texas Heart Institute (THI) in the evolution and development of heart replacement and circulatory assist technology. This is appropriate because both the first successful LVAD and the first successful artificial heart were implanted at these institutions in Houston, Texas. In addition, the initial experimental work on the continuous-flow pumps now in use (Jarvik, HeartMate II, HeartWare, Impella) began at our institute. My experience has been unique in this regard, as I have been personally involved in this journey from 1963 to the present. My only absence was during 1968–1970, when I served with an assault helicopter company engaged in active combat in the central highlands of Vietnam. In this same period (April 1969), Dr. Denton Cooley “relocated” Dr. DeBakey’s artificial heart from BCM’s labs to THI-St. Luke’s Hospital and successfully implanted it as the first bridge to transplant with an artificial heart (or any device) (Fig. 1.1). Thereafter, Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Cooley did not speak to each other for more than 30 years. My friends who were in Houston at the time assured me that Vietnam was probably a safer place for me to be.

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    It may be of interest to note that Dr. Jarvik’s company initially consisted of only Dr. Jarvik and his wife, Marilyn vos Savant, famed for having the highest recorded IQ according to the Guinness Book of World Records, making it without doubt the company with the highest average IQ in the world.

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  1. Center for Cardiac Support, Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    O. H. Frazier M.D.

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  1. Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Surgical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation, Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jeffrey A. Morgan

  2. Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure Center, Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Andrew B. Civitello

  3. Center for Cardiac Support, Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    O.H. Frazier

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Frazier, O.H. (2018). History of Mechanical Circulatory Support. In: Morgan, J., Civitello, A., Frazier, O. (eds) Mechanical Circulatory Support for Advanced Heart Failure . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65364-8_1

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