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Patient With Artificial Heart Smashes Survival Record
The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from the hospital.
The man’s doctors reported this week that he was the first person in the world to be discharged from the hospital with an implant developed to completely replace the heart’s functioning. “We’ve worked towards this moment for years and we’re enormously proud to have been the first team in Australia to carry out this procedure,” Paul Jansz, a cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon at St Vincent’s, told The Guardian. Artificial implants like the BiVACOR heart aren’t the only emerging technology that could one day support or supplant the limited supply of donor organs.
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