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...recipient's body often rejects the new organ. Fewer than 50 transplants are done in the U.S. each year, and only 50% of patients survive five years. A more dazzling option seemed imminent when researchers from the University of Utah announced last month that they were ready to implant artificial hearts in humans. Only one hurdle remained: permission from the Food and Drug Administration. But last week the FDA rejected their application-for the time being at least...
...fungus came straight through, unimpeded, which proves that it can implant itself deeply into the lungs," Kagan said...
Twelve years in development at a cost of $4 million, AID (for Automatic Implantable Defibrillator) is largely a triumph for Cardiologist Michel Mirowski, 55, who migrated from Israel with the aim of perfecting it against almost unanimous medical opposition. Experts doubted that such miniaturized equipment could work inside the body. The implant's electronic heart and soul is its microcircuitry. Designed by Dr. M.S. Heilman and Engineer Alois Langer at Medrad/Intec Systems, a small medical technology firm in Pittsburgh, the little package (total weight: 250 grams, or 9 oz.) is placed just under the skin of the abdomen...
Controversy is sure to continue; several institutes in other states are considering opening similar clinics. Meanwhile the Virginia doctors hope to do their first implant in March...
Potency does not come cheap. Rod implant surgery runs around $3,500, including hospitalization; for the inflatable prosthesis the cost can go as high as $9,000. Despite the expense, which some medical insurance does not cover, the operations are becoming increasingly popular, and doctors performing them say that implanted men are among the happiest patients they have ever seen...