Aussie man leaves hospital with totally artificial heart in world first

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Aussie man leaves hospital with totally artificial heart in world first​

 

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I did wonder about the article and it turned out that the first was not receiving the artificial heart, but is the first to be discharged from hospital while they waited for a heart transplant.

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart.

The patient, a man from New South Wales in his 40s, was not the world’s first person to receive this type of artificial heart. However, he is said to be the first with one to be discharged from hospital to wait for a heart transplant, which he’s since had.

 

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Amazing what is possible these days.