Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his ...

BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company developing the world’s first titanium Total Artificial Heart (TAH), today announced that its device has received Breakthrough Device Designation from ...

BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

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 ...

A new life-saving titanium device called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart ... the titanium heart could be a future permanent heart replacement for those too old or sick to undergo a transplant.

The total artificial heart (TAH ... way to keeping those people – and many more – alive until their replacement heart comes through.

Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement without the need for open-heart surgery. For years, Mertz, a great-grandmother from Essex ...

Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with a mechanical mitral valve, underwent replacement of the artificial valve with a living donor mitral valve through a partial heart ...

The only treatment for advanced heart failure, other than a transplant, is pump replacement through an artificial heart, called a left ventricular assist device, which can help the heart pump blood.

Sometimes, when I was watching various artificial heart experiments in ... The dual LVAD, a sorta kinda heart replacement, had even made it to the cover of Popular Science, in 2012, and kept ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to design the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human.