An Australian man with severe heart failure received a metal heart and was well enough to be discharged from the hospital ...

On Sept. 6, 2024, Lev'Veon became the first child in Michigan to get a total artificial heart, and he is possibly the ...

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 ...

An Australian man has become a medical marvel thanks to his groundbreaking artificial heart. The man’s doctors reported this week that he was the first person in the world to be discharged from ...

A man in Australia who received a titanium heart has achieved a double world-first, after becoming the only person to survive with the artificial heart for more than 100 days, and to be discharged ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

to recover your native heart. You can do this with a combination of medications and mechanical heart pumps (MCS). This treatment allows patients to keep their native heart without needing a transplant ...

There is only one mechanical heart pump available in the U.S. for patients with heart failure requiring left ventricular assistance. If the INNOVATE trial is successful, a second option could emerge.

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve ...

spent 105 days living with the BiVacor Total Artificial Heart, a state-of-the-art device that uses magnetic levitation technology. The device, a titanium blood pump designed to act as a temporary ...