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.

“If the artificial heart is ever to achieve its ... treating the device not as a permanent heart replacement, but as a temporary solution — a “bridge” for desperately ill patients who ...

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 ...

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

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

as part of an FDA approved trial to test the safety and feasibility of the artificial organ. As it stands, BiVACOR’s heart is not being developed as a permanent replacement, but rather as a ...

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 ...