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

Back in 1982, Barney Clark became the first person to live without a human heartbeat when he had the Jarvik 7 artificial heart implanted in his chest. Since then, thousands of others have joined ...

During the Barney Clark era, the field was so young (the U barely had a heart surgery program), that transformative leaps such as implanting the first artificial heart could be made. Today, research ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, February 17, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to provide a ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

A 75-year-old Frenchman has just been given the gift of life as a team of surgeons have successfully completed the transplant of a revolutionary artificial heart. The patient, so far unnamed ...

The six-hour surgery, performed at the same hospital where Australia’s first heart transplant took place in 1968, was an immediate success. For more than 3 months, the BiVACOR heart kept him ...

SUITA, Osaka -- A miniature artificial heart made of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, expected to be one of the main exhibits at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, was unveiled to the media ...