The Duke University Health System was responsible for the second-ever utilization of a technology that acts as a complete artificial heart to extend the lives of patients waiting for a transplant. The ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while ...

Surgeons at the University of Iowa Healthcare in Iowa City have successfully completed an artificial heart transplant, which marks the first procedures of its kind in the state of Iowa, according to a ...

Six-year-old Brie McCann, who has a rare condition called Ebstein's anomaly, had the operation at Great Ormond Street ...

Grant Feusner, a 64-year-old security systems engineer, started having an odd constellation of health symptoms a year ago. "I had difficulty breathing, a dry mouth, couldn't sleep, and had ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to provide a therapeutic alternative for ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from the hospital. Reading time 3 minutes An Australian man has become a medical ...

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 at ...

Israel celebrated its first successful artificial heart transplant at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on May 25. Four days later, a second successful artificial heart transplant took place at ...

Federal regulators approved use of an artificial heart yesterday, marking the first time a mechanical device has been made widely available to replace a failing human organ. In contrast with early ...