Tag: ARTIFICIALHEART

Approximately 2,000 hearts become available for transplants every year, but the waiting list of recipients consistently numbers close to 3,000. That shortage leaves many ailing people with no choice but to wait and hope for their names to be called. To combat the agonizing uncertainty, several international organizations continue to focus on developing artificial hearts that can at least help ...

Alain Carpentier, head of a European research team that developed the first artificial heart, believes his team's implantable artificial heart will be able to enter clinical trials by 2011. "After 15 years of work, we are handing over to industry to produce an artificial heart," he told the Daily Mail. The prototype is shaped like a real heart and made from chemically treated animal tissue to ...