Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation
www.abc.net.au
A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

In short:

A mechanical heart has been implanted in a New South Wales man who was experiencing severe heart failure.

He has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with the titanium heart.

What’s next?

Doctors say the invention will likely be an alternative for donor heart transplants in the future.

  • sorghumEnglish
    91·
    14 hours ago

    Just under 7.5 years is the bar for longest lived with artificial heart.

    !RemindMe 8 years

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Thought I saw a headline about him living 90 days, implying he didn’t live longer. Sorry, I didn’t click on it to verify that my inference was accurate.

      • yuri@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        The man lived with the artificial heart for more than 100 days until a human heart match was found last week. His transplant surgery was also a success, and he is recovering well.

        battery currently lasts 4 hours, so probably safe to guess he spent that 100 days in a hospital. still really impressive.