Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation
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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.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    This is amazing, but it would certainly be a pain in the ass to have to wake up every four hours during the night to change your battery for your damn heart. And if the alarm couldn’t wake you, you’d just fucking die or something.