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 ...
Here’s something we thought we’d never see on Hackaday. [Chris Suprock] is developing an artificial heart he calls Steel Heart. It’s an artificial heart powered by electromagnets and ...
Lowell Edwards (Fig. 1), who asked if I would collaborate with him in the development of an artificial heart. He was serious. I told him it was too soon, that we did not even have satisfactory ...
The youngest ever person to receive an artificial heart implant has had it removed when his own heart started working again. Sixteen-year-old Jamie Darney from Port Talbot in south Wales was given ...
The new device, Texas Heart officials said, is more durable. It relies on a single, continuously spinning rotor, suspended by an electromagnet inside a titanium casing. Like the current artificial ...
Schroeder returned to Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had received heart-bypass surgery two years earlier and on November 25th was given an artificial heart. Schroeder ...
A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR ...
How an artificial heart pump saved the life of a longtime singer. How an artificial heart pump saved the life of a longtime singer and enabled him to maintain his quality of life. Grover Silcox ...
The latest artificial heart emerging from the Texas Medical Center is aimed at treating infant patients suffering from heart diseases. Another artificial heart could be beating in Houston soon ...