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2016: Successful heart transplant after 1374 days living with a total artificial heart https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26819291/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go

2016: Successful heart transplant after 1374 days living with a total artificial heart https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26819291/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26819291/

alpaca128 2y ago
Yeah, I find that confusing too. Recently I heard in a YT video with a cardiologist (Medlife Crisis) that some people in the US lived more than 4 years with an artificial heart. The article calls it the "world’s first implantable rotary blood pump that can act as a complete replacement for a human heart", so maybe there's a difference but the article is written as if this was the first artificial heart ever which it clearly isn't.
- baxtr 2y ago
  But 100 is much more than 4!!!
- tredre3 2y ago
  The article is deliberately misleading, possibly because of a marketing spin by their source? People have lived years with artificial hearts, this 100 days is just the record for this particular device, the BiVACOR.