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Since about 1950 a number of medical devices which make contact with the blood of living persons have been developed, manufactured, and used clinically. A partial list would include the pacemaker, arterial graft, prosthetic heart valve, hip prosthesis, heart lung machine, and kidney dialysis machine. The growing artificial organ market in the United States serves several hundred thousand patients annually at present, and amounts to several billions of dollars.
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