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As a TIME medicine writer since 1978, Anastasia Toufexis has worked on a number of heart-related stories, including the debates over coronary bypass surgery and the role of cholesterol in heart attacks. For this week's cover she went to the University of Utah to learn about the...
A better alternative, according to some researchers, is a device that could take over temporarily for either of the two main pumping chambers of the heart, particularly the workhorse left ventricle. These assist devices shunt blood from the ventricle to a pump outside the body that sends it directly to...
Ultimately, a successful artificial heart may be able to help more patients, perhaps a maximum of 50,000 annually. But the expense could be astronomical. Implanting the device will cost upwards of $30,000, and home equipment and maintenance will cost many thousands more. The Government now pays more than...
Says Alabama's Kirklin: "Healthcare delivery in this country is restrained by dollars available. I wonder what other things would be curtailed if a disproportionate share went to artificial hearts?"
Even more spectacular is an operation that researchers at the University of Utah hope to do soon: implantation of an artificial heart. The challenge is formidable, since the heart is one of nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime...