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A man in Australia who received a titanium heart has achieved a double world-first, after becoming the only person to survive ...
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The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...
A recent study found First Nations Australians were twice as likely to present to an emergency department with asthma or ...
The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart The titanium BiVACOR total artificial heart was invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, and it is a rotary blood pump that can mimic the human heart. The device ...
Dr. Richard Hsu treats patients with a condition called Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS). For people with the ...
The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...
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.
The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part: a levitated rotor held in place by magnets. As the name ...