Doctor Bud Frazier, a world-renowned Texas Heart Institute cardiac surgeon, speaks during a press conference announcing the first, in-human use of a total artificial heart without valves, Thursday ...

A Texas Heart Institute implanted a promising new model. For more than fifty years it has been one of the holy grails of medicine. ... A New Artificial Heart in Houston Might Save Millions ...

HOUSTON – The Texas Heart Institute announced a major milestone Thursday afternoon in the cardiovascular health space, regarding the implantation of a revolutionary total artificial heart ...

HOUSTON — A novel valveless artificial heart has been implanted into a human with end-stage heart failure for the first time, the Texas Heart Institute (THI) announced on Thursday. The procedure ...

A new chapter in artificial heart development unfolded Thursday in Houston, where officials at the Texas Heart Institute announced they had successfully implanted a novel device that they hope can ...

This past July, cardiac surgeon O. H. “Bud” Frazier helped achieve the near culmination of his life’s work: the implantation in a patient’s chest of an artificial heart that, theoretically ...

A groundbreaking procedure performed in Houston is offering new hope for people with end-stage heart disease. For the first time ever, doctors at the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's ...

The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR®, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced today the successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A groundbreaking procedure performed in Houston is offering new hope for people with end-stage heart disease. For the first time ever, doctors at the Texas Heart Institute ...

A team at the Houston-based Texas Heart Institute has performed a successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. The implantation took place July 9 as part of the ...

HOUSTON — A novel valveless artificial heart has been implanted into a human with end-stage heart failure for the first time, the Texas Heart Institute (THI) announced on Thursday. The procedure ...

HOUSTON — A novel valveless artificial heart has been implanted into a human with end-stage heart failure for the first time, the Texas Heart Institute (THI) announced on Thursday. The procedure ...