Artificial heart survived for four days under mechanical support but did not recover from the complications of the cardiac arrest; finally, the pump was discontinued, and the patient died. On April 21, 1966, Michael DeBakey and Liotta implanted the first clinical LVAD in a paracorporeal position (where the external pump rests at the side of the patient) at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, in a patient experiencing cardiogenic shock after heart surgery. The patient developed neurological and pulmonary complications and died after few days of LVAD mechanical support. In October 1966, DeBakey and Liotta implanted the paracorporeal Liotta-DeBakey LVAD in a new
Ray Liotta Pitt and James Gandolfini in the 2012 Andrew Dominik film "Killing Them Softly" and the 2013 Ariel Vromen film "The Iceman" features Liotta as the character of Roy DeMeo. He had a supporting role in "Muppets Most Wanted" (2014). In 2014, Liotta played a preacher in the faith-based film "The Identical". Liotta starred in the Western miniseries "Texas Rising" for The History Channel in 2015. Other projects include "Kill the Messenger" with Jeremy Renner, "Stretch" with Chris Pine and a David Guetta video. Since June 2015, Liotta narrates the AMC docu-series "The Making of the Mob". In 2016, Liotta began