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PARIS, France (AFP) — French prosthetics maker Carmat said Monday it had sold one of its artificial hearts for the first time since its 2008 founding, for implantation into an Italian patient awaiting a transplant. The operation “was performed by the team headed by heart surgeon Dr Ciro Maiello at the Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli hospital in Naples, one of the centres with the greatest experience in the field of artificial hearts in Italy,” […]
Artificial hearts have a hard plastic protective casing and weigh 900 grams. They operate like a natural human heart, have two ventricles and even beat. Implanting an artificial heart involves cutting the failing heart under the auricles, to ensure blood-flow to the organs. A biocompatible interface is sutured to the auricles. The device — comprising two ventricular cavities and four valves — clips onto this interface. Both ventricular cavities are divided into two parts, each […]
Artificial hearts operate like a natural human heart. They are made of soft “biomaterials” intended to lessen the risk of blood clots or rejection by the immune system and are powered by a belt of lithium batteries.
