#Artificial Heart

[reasonsforhope]

"In Australia, a man was kept alive for 100 days on an artificial heart made of titanium while a donor heart was eventually found.

This is the longest-ever period that a man has been kept alive by an artificial heart, giving its developers encouragement that it can play a major role in supporting waiting list patients whose hearts are failing.

5 months ago, a man in his forties received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) after experiencing heart failure. The TAH has no pumps, valves, or other moving parts susceptible to wear. Instead, magnetic levitation permits a single rotor to pump blood to the body through both ventricles.

He was able to leave the hospital even, before a donor heart was found that was transplanted successfully.

In a statement, BiVACOR, St. Vincent’s Hospital where the surgery was carried out, and Monash University which provided the grant funding for the development of the TAH, said that the result is a sign the artificial heart could potentially offer a long-term option for people suffering from heart failure.

BiVACOR’s founder, Australian bioengineer Daniel Timms, who invented the device, said it was “exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition.”

“The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart,” he said in the statement. “Their bravery will pave the way for countless more patients to receive this lifesaving technology.”

In the United States, there are around 3,500 donor hearts made available every year for more than 4,400 people who join the waiting list.

The TAH has already been tested in an early feasibility study in search of eventual FDA approval. 5 patients received the device, CNN reports, with the first being last July, when a 58-year-old man suffering end-stage heart failure received the implant during surgery at Texas Medical Center.

The four others also received it successfully, and organizers hope to expand it to 15 patients."

-via Good News Network, March 18, 2025

[vincent-stims]

yuppp i’m back to recording my record collection

free 2 use with credit!

[artsyrosie]

Fucked around and typed ‘Perryshmirtz’ into Spotify and found this song on someone’s playlist and was absolutely gobsmacked. immediately went to find the YouTube video and every comment is killing me.

Songs about media tropes…. Songs that romanticize historically un-romantic tropes for the win, man.

Here’s the playlist I was on:

[sister-lucifer]

me when i’ve got a new heart. i’ve got a new heart. i’ve got a new heart. i’ve got a new ARTIFICIAL heart

[lola-bo-bola]

Dinobot Tribute

UH beast wars spoilers i love him so much

[digitalfossils]

[wolfnowl]

Titanium Maglev Heart Implanted Successfully in a Patient for First Time May Help Others Waiting for a Transplant

WoW. 🫀

[vaguely-problematic]

titanium heart

[neosciencehub]

Patients with Artificial Heart can regenerate Heart Muscles

Patients with Artificial Heart can regenerate Heart Muscles @neosciencehub #humanheart #ArtificialHeart #HeartMuscles #Sciencenews #neosciencehub

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson’s Sarver Heart Center discovered that some artificial heart patients are capable of growing new heart muscle. This finding raises the prospect of developing novel treatments for heart failure and possibly even curing it in the future. The journal Circulation published the findings of the study, which was co-led by a…

[covenawhite66]

This simulator combines pig heart tissue and soft robotic muscles and was described in two recent studies.The simulator, which pumps a clear fluid instead of blood, is hooked up to instruments that measure blood flow, blood pressure, and more.

[innonurse]

Developing an artificial heart based on soft robotics

- By InnoNurse Staff -

Drawing inspiration from both nature and an unlikely source – a ketchup bottle, PhD student Luuk van Laake designed a soft artificial heart.

Read more at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

Header image credit: Canva

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[tenth-sentence]

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