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DIED. ROBERT TOOLS, 59, the world's first recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, which kept him alive for 151 days; in Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of...
Each year more than 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with congestive heart failure--a condition in which a weakened heart can't pump as much blood as the body needs. Drugs like beta-blockers help stabilize many patients in the earliest stages of the disease. But there aren't a...
But that was before Tools got his robot heart--a miracle of medical miniaturization called the AbioCor. Unlike the first generation of artificial hearts--which were attached by tubes and wires to refrigerator-size power units--the softball-size, plastic-and-titanium AbioCor is entirely self-contained, save for a...
Not everybody needs a new heart, although hundreds of thousands eventually may. Nor will an artificial heart rid the world of sickness or poverty or terror. But sometimes progress is measured one thin, retired grandfather at a time. For saving the life of Robert Tools and for changing our perception...
The liver is one of the most complex organs in the body--and one of the hardest to replace. It removes toxins from the blood and manufactures up to 1,000 proteins, metabolites and other vital substances. Now scientists trying to develop an artificial liver have found a way around...