Artificial heart This technologically advanced pneumatic Phoenix-7 Total Artificial Heart was manufactured by a Taiwanese dentist Kelvin K. Cheng, a Chinese physician T. M. Kao and colleagues at the Taiwan TAH Research Center in Tainan, Republic of China (Taiwan). With this experimental artificial heart, the patient's BP was maintained at 90-100/40-55 mmHg and cardiac output at 4.2–5.8 L/min. The patient then received the world's first successful combined heart and kidney transplantation after bridging with a total artificial heart. The first AbioCor to be surgically implanted in a patient was on July 3, 2001. SynCardia is a company based in Tucson, Arizona which
1969 Copa Argentina Final 1969 Copa Argentina Final The 1969 Copa Argentina Finals were the final two-legged tie that decided the champion of the 1969 Copa Argentina. The finals were contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Boca Juniors and Atlanta. Both matches were played in Estadio Gasómetro in Buenos Aires. Boca Juniors won the first match 3-1, and Atlanta won the second match 1-0, but in the aggregate Boca Juniors won 3-2 to claim their first Copa Argentina Title. The champions was automatically qualified to the Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes, but Boca had already qualified to 1970 Copa Libertadores, so the runners-up, Atlanta, Took