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Most earlier mechanical hearts - such as the seminal Jarvik 7 and other ventricular assist devices - were not designed to replace diseased hearts entirely, but to assist impaired function and bridge heart patients to transplant. Other total artificial hearts, meanwhile, such as the U.S.-developed AbioCor and a prototype being tested by MagScrew, have not successfully modulated beating and pulse according to the physical needs of the host...
...sickest patients while they wait for a heart transplant. Still, it has proved effective. Patients put on CardioWest were more than twice as likely to survive for a year, increasing their chance of finding a suitable donor heart. Doctors are testing a fully implantable artificial heart called the AbioCor, but it has not yet been approved...
...traveled all the way to Oz for his heart, but someday patients with advanced cardiac disease may not have to go so far. Almost 20 years after the bulky Jarvik artificial heart failed so miserably, AbioMed, a Massachusetts-based bioengineering company, developed a new, miniaturized version called the AbioCor. The device, totally self-contained (except for a belt-worn battery pack), was implanted in six terminally ill patients; the first, Robert Tools, survived for five months, many months longer than his doctors dared hope. Doctors have had even more success with a small pump that takes over just...
...DIED. ROBERT TOOLS, 59, the world's first recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, which kept him alive for 151 days; in Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of July. His death, from internal bleeding and organ failure, was not related to the mechanical heart. DIED. GEORGE HARRISON, 58, the Beatles' quiet and wry lead guitarist, of cancer; in Los Angeles. A proponent of Eastern culture, the youngest Beatle wrote some of the group's most lyrical songs (Something...
...much blood as the body needs. Drugs like beta-blockers help stabilize many patients in the earliest stages of the disease. But there aren't a lot of options for folks in the later stages. Heart transplants are one solution, but they're in short supply. The new AbioCor artificial heart shows promise, but it's still experimental; last week doctors reported that Robert Tools, the first recipient, had suffered a stroke...