An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

draw blood from that chamber, and pump the blood back up to the aorta. They are left ventricular assist devices. There is only one approved total artificial heart in the United States right now ...

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An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to survive more than 100 days with an ...

Artificial Titanium Heart: A 40-year-old man from Australia was given a titanium heart, which kept him alive for more than ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

Nothing shows more clearly the perfect engineering of the heart than our own failed attempts to imitate it. This history of the total artificial heart is punctuated with both brilliant innovation ...

Just as air travel wasn’t possible until inventors stopped trying to imitate birds in flight, Frazier thought researchers could create a permanent artificial heart only when they gave up on ...

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart. I am a ...