Heart Transplant

Heart Transplant

The artificial heart uses magnetic technology to "whoosh" the blood around the body instead of pumping it. Photo: Collected

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success

The implant is designed to sustain patients until a donor heart is available, but BiVACOR’s long-term goal is to enable recipients to live indefinitely with the device without needing a transplant.

‘We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,’ Dr Bartley Griffith, one of the surgeons, told The New York Times.

Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

This Nov. 27, 2021, photo provided by Tracey Ferguson shows her son D.J. Ferguson initially being treated at Milford, Mass. Regional Medical Center. Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is defending itself after Ferguson's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set similar requirements to improve patients' chances of survival. Photo :UNB/AP

Hospital patient without Covid shot denied heart transplant

Man gets genetically modified pig’s heart

Man gets genetically modified pig’s heart

Surgeon Muhammad M Mohiuddin, MD leads a team placing a genetically-modified pig heart into a storage device at the Xenotransplant lab before its transplant on David Bennett, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease, at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, US January 7, 2022. Picture taken January 7, 2022. University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)/Handout via REUTERS.

Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant