Australian company BiVACOR has revealed a patient implanted with its artificial heart survived for 100 days – and is still with us after receiving a donated organ.… The un-named man had heart ...

Doctors at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney performed the experimental procedure last November, installing the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart into a man suffering from severe heart failure ...

A Maryland preteenager became the first patient in the world to receive a live heart valve in replacement of an artificial one during a partial heart transplant in a Washington, D.C., hospital.

The man, who was in his mid-40s, was the first person ever to walk out of a hospital with an artificial heart 10NewsFirst/Youtube An Australian man with severe heart failure lived for a record 105 ...

Bivacor's Total Artificial Heart gets FDA Breakthrough Device status, speeding development and possibly transforming heart-failure treatment.

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of ...

The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients provided by colleagues at the University of Utah Health and School of Medicine led by Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, ...

A revolutionary new artificial heart impact could change heart transplants in the future.The device is in the early stages of approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and only a few have ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.

Doctors at Texas Heart Institute developed artificial device that has no pulse. June 15, 2011— -- Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old Texas man who was about 12 hours away from death, became the first ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik created the first artificial heart used in humans. He's died from complications of Parkinson’s disease at age 79. While his devices extended lives, they sparked many ethical ...