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.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    9 months ago

    From the article…

    It is powered by an external rechargeable battery that connects to the heart via a wire in the patient’s chest.

    The battery lasts four hours and then alerts the patient that a new battery is needed.

    • Arbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      9 months ago

      Exposed wires? Does this mean I could overclock my heart with a bench power supply?

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Hopefully it can just run off wall power while at home. It would suck to change in the middle of each night.