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More than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately...
And heart doctors remember all too well what happened to the handful of patients who were given artificial hearts in the 1980s. Each of them was tethered to a large external compressor that powered the device through tubes into the body. The first recipient, a retired dentist named Barney Clark...
But does the world really need an artificial heart? The answer, surprisingly, might be no. There has been some pretty good progress recently in the medical treatment of congestive heart failure, which affects some 5 million Americans. (Despite the scary-sounding name, congestive heart failure doesn't mean the old...
The patient's new heart is the AbioCor, made by Abiomed of Danvers, Mass. It is the second type of totally artificial heart to be tested in people - the Jarvik-7, you may recall, was implanted in patient Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982 - but...
The patient will be the first artificial-heart recipient in history to take a shower.