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Celebrating an Artificial Heart Milestone | An Australian man lives for over 100 days with an artificial heart. The human heart is a marvel. Only the size of a fist, this organ pumps blood through ...

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart. The patient, a ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Australias first implant of the artificial heart was a success. Darlinghurst, NSW. Photo: Kate Geraghty (SMH ...

The man, now recovering well, became just the sixth person in the world, and first outside the United States, to receive the mechanical heart implant when he underwent surgery last November in Sydney.

Dr Daniel Timms, inventor of the BiVacor total artificial heart, at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute on Wednesday.Credit: Kate Geraghty The man, a patient at St Vincent’s in ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor ... it’s constructed from titanium and there are no valves or mechanical bearings that may be ...

Almost two decades after his father died from heart failure, Daniel Timms has helped to transform treatment for patients across the globe. His invention, the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, recently ...

An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with a totally artificial implanted heart. The Australian researchers and doctors behind the heart surgery on Wednesday ...

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The patient, a man in his 40s who did not wish to be identified, was experiencing severe heart failure and volunteered to be the first Australian recipient of a BiVACOR total artificial heart implant.