It looks like it’s straight out of a comic book, but BiVACOR is a real, functioning titanium heart. The metal device is ultimately intended as a replacement for human donor organs, but was first ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while ...

This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. DONAVON HARBISON, A 35-year-old former collegiate offensive lineman, looked like a hearty, healthy ...

In a monumental leap forward for medical science, a 58-year-old man from the United States became the first recipient of a titanium-based artificial heart. This breakthrough surgery was performed at ...

A human has successfully received a titanium heart. The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced Thursday (25 July) the first-in-human implantation ...

There's new hope for the thousands of people waiting for a heart transplant. Usually, those patients are too sick to go home and forced to spend months in an ICU, just waiting for the call. Now, a new ...

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium, the device uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood in adult patients with ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart is included on the “The Best Inventions of 2024” list published Oct. 30 in Time. The heart has been used in three successful “bridge-to-heart transplant” patients ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.

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