acknowledging the fact that the engineering of the day was nowhere near ready to provide a totally implantable artificial heart. But the dream of a mechanical replacement heart lived on ...

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 ...

Australian company BiVACOR has revealed a patient implanted with its artificial heart survived for 100 days – and is still with us after receiving a donated organ.… The un-named man had heart ...

Not to be outdone by a foreign doc whose skills were derided in Houston, DeBakey, who had been skeptical of transplants and had been working for years on an artificial replacement for the heart ...

The titanium device, first dreamt up by Daniel Timms and his father, could replace traditional organ transplants altogether ...

Their artificial heart was first successfully implanted ... giving patients hope and launching a new era of cardiac valve replacement. “Oregon’s Pioneering Hearts” tells the story of a ...

They also showed that mitral-valve replacement was possible with a ... California, to manufacture artificial heart valves for human use—the first such company in the world.

Heart replacement pumps can restore cardiac function in patients with end-stage biventricular heart failure, but require patients to stay in hospital. Total artificial heart devices like Aeson are ...

The EFS involves a total of ten eligible subjects for heart transplants. Its primary endpoint is the survival of the patient at six months after implantation of the artificial heart or a ...

A long-term replacement for a failing human heart ... The patient in his forties received a temporary, but lifesaving, total artificial heart transplant. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Paul Jansz ...