An Australian man suffering from severe heart failure lived for more than three months with a titanium heart while waiting ...
A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human ...
The man had undergone a procedure that lasted for six hours to have the artificial heart implanted. Read more at straitstimes ...
In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...
The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received a device called BiVACOR, at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney last November.
Suitable for most men and women, this small device uses a titanium biventricular rotary pump that, as Timms describes, contains a magnetically levitated rotor that pumps blood and therefore ...
The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part, a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. As the name suggests, it’s constructed from titanium and there are no ...
This magnetically levitating rotor spins between two chambers while never coming into contact with the titanium frame itself, and thus eliminates the risk of gradual corrosion or malfunctions.