There’s a reason that the Dodrill-GMR artificial heart looked like a car engine. Source: National Museum of American History, CC0 1.0 Once doctors were free to explore the human heart ...

allowing him to regain strength and mobility before ultimately receiving a real human heart transplant. For the first time, a person with a totally artificial heart was discharged from the ...

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

A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH (total artificial heart), which just had the first prototype implanted in a human patient. Unlike the typical membrane-based pumps, the BiVACOR ...

If anything, it looks like some ancient, misshapen pair of headphones, but in fact it’s one of the most famous medical devices of all time: the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human ...

Use of the device at Duke was part of a first-in-human clinical study aiming to evaluate the safety ... Harbison and his Duke team opted to move forward with the artificial heart. “There was ...

Human heart. (Photo: Features.co) After training, artificial intelligence was tested with a new group of 108 patients. They all went to the hospital for an angiogram. That is, an X-ray technique ...

A long-term replacement for a failing human heart is regarded as one of ... but lifesaving, total artificial heart transplant. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Paul Jansz, who performed the operation ...

who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.