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artificial heart
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implanted medical device that pumps blood
Research
82,337 papers- 2001: An artificial heart odyssey.Artificial organs · 2023
- Total artificial heart system.International anesthesiology clinics · 2022
- The CARMAT total artificial heart.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2014
- CARMAT Total Artificial Heart and the Quest to Improve Biventricular Mechanical Support.ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) · 2021
- ARTIFICIAL heart.British medical journal · 1953
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Wikidata facts
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Encyclopedic overview
An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used as a bridge to heart transplantation, but ongoing research aims to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart when a transplant—whether from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a genetically engineered pig—is unavailable or not viable. As of December 2023, there are two commercially available full artificial heart devices; both are intended for temporary use (less than a year) for patients with total heart failure who are awaiting a human heart transplant.
Although other similar inventions preceded it from the late 1940s, the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7 in 1982, designed by a team including Willem Johan Kolff, William DeVries and Robert Jarvik.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “artificial heart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.