Earlier on Singularity Hub, we took a detailed look into the magic of heart replacement surgery (and even growing hearts with stem cells). It’s a great way to tack on a few extra years to patients who ...

Surgeons implanted an artificial heart into Tom Christerson one year ago and today it's still beating. The heart has kept the Central City, Ky., resident alive ten times longer than anybody had ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Doctors at Jewish Hospital this week implanted the ninth AbioCor artificial heart and the patient was reported in critical but stable condition Friday. The 10-hour ...

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UCLA Medical Center and Abiomed Inc. have announced that the principal investigators of the Los Angeles-based AbioCor clinical and research teams — cardiothoracic surgeons Drs. Hillel Laks and Daniel ...

The AbioCor artificial heart Reader's advisory: Wired News has been unable to confirm some sources for a number of stories written by this author. If you have any information about sources cited in ...

Gray said that the patient, whose name is still being kept secret for privacy's sake, has been doing well since the surgery, "better than Rob [Dowling] or I would have expected considering how sick he ...

University of Louisville surgeons Drs. Laman Gray and Rob Dowling have performed their second AbioCor heart replacement this month, implanting the device in a patient at Jewish Hospital on Jan. 22.

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NOVA: What are the advantages of continuous rather than pulsatile (pulse-like) flow? Frazier: With continuous flow, there isn't a pulse. Without a pulse, it is not necessary to have volume ...

A man was implanted with a self-contained artificial heart Thursday, becoming only the second patient in the world to receive the experimental device. The softball-sized device was implanted into the ...

The 12th person to receive an experimental AbioCor artificial heart has died less than three months after transplant surgery. Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, which developed the heart, told Bloomberg News ...