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CARMAT Bioprosthetic Heart Implanted in First Patient

Posted December 20, 2013 3:44 PM

From Medgadget:

Word comes our way that a team at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris has successfully implanted the first CARMAT heart in a human patient, and the recipient is awake, conscious, but under close observation in the ICU.

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12/21/2013 3:33 AM

Looks like a great feat of engineering.
Shame the battery and control system have a load of wires (4?!) joining it all up. It looks rather vulnerable.

I didn't get any sound with the video which didn't help.
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12/21/2013 3:40 AM

Gosh what else are they going to do,most probably an animals heart into a human.
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12/21/2013 6:57 AM

That was always the problem with powering and controll........ But they did cut down the amount of tubes and the wiring.... To a point that in another 20-30 years, it will be less conspicuous.

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