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 ...

After the operation, Mr Houghton had to carry a bag containing the pump's controller and batteries. An external wire from a metal plug in his skull carried power to the heart device. Artificial ...

Nobuyuki Kurita of BCM and TCH said that if all goes well, the pump ... the heart of another THI breakthrough technology, the BiVacor Total Artificial Heart, which was implanted in a human for ...

The Lincolnshire Heart Centre, based at Lincoln County Hospital, used an Impella heart pump during a coronary angioplasty or stent procedure in June. The device temporarily assists the heart to ...

Axial-flow pumps are tiny enough to fit inside the human heart. Frazier: That's right. Historically, we thought the artificial heart would be the answer. When I was in medical school, the head of ...

Edwards saw the human heart as a pump, too, and approached Starr in 1958 with an idea to produce an artificial heart. “Dr. Starr could have thought this guy is crazy, but he didn’t,” said ...