The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart ... is a total heart replacement and works as a continuous pump in which ...

The human heart is a vital organ that pumps blood through the body. You probably don't even think about it, but your heart is always working — it beats about 100,000 times a day, which adds up ...

When a healthy heart does its thing in the human body, it uses what’s called a pulsatile flow to rhythmically move blood through the cardiovascular system. When the heart is offline during certain ...

An Australian man in his 40s has survived 100 days with a titanium heart. He is the first person globally to do so. The ...

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

There's a limited supply of human organs, so to qualify for multiple ... Health began looking into getting her a mechanical heart pump, called a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which ...

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart The titanium BiVACOR total artificial heart was invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel ...

"After I was ruled out for a human transplant ... this is the first documented case of a patient with a mechanical heart pump receiving an organ transplant of any kind. What's more, this is ...