And here, in 1969, Dr. Denton A. Cooley performed the world’s first total artificial heart implant, touching off one of the country’s most well-known medical feuds between Cooley and another ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...

A permanent implantable artificial heart has long been a goal of medicine, and if recent developments in materials science and electrical engineering have anything to say about it, such a device ...

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 ...

Their artificial heart was first successfully implanted in a human in 1960 in Portland. “Oregon’s Pioneering Hearts” is the latest episode from “Oregon Experience,” an original OPB ...

The BiVACOR device is the second total artificial heart implanted via clinical trial at Duke. In 2021, the heart transplant team became the first in the world to successfully implant a different ...

Tens of millions of Americans live with medical devices implanted in their bodies—artificial joints, heart defibrillators, surgical mesh. And it's a safe bet that most of them assume that ...

Schroeder was only the second permanent artificial-heart recipient ... chairman of the Humana Heart Institute who participated in the implant operation, Schroeder's family, as well as Schroeder ...

Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer of CARMAT, stated: “With 42 implants of our Aeson® artificial heart and €7 million in sales, i.e. 2.5 times higher than in 2023, we delivered a very ...

A nurse involved in a world-first surgery in Saudi Arabia has spoken about how robotics can assist in patient care. Read more ...

HeartMate 3, the artificial heart pump developed by Abbott, was implanted in a 35-year-old man who had been hospitalised for nearly four months due to advanced heart failure, which led to kidney and ...