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...patient has been identified only as a man in his 50s, a man who met all the FDA's qualifications for the procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure...
...Associated Press learned about the operation Monday from an unnamed source; Tuesday, Dr. Gray and Dr. Dowling were in front of the microphones telling reporters that their patient was resting comfortably, awake and responsive. Then they started talking about the day - not far away - when a man with a machine in his chest could go back home, go back to work, take out the trash if it wasn't too heavy...
...Thursday, Dr. Gray was on "Good Morning America," telling Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson that he and his patient had a pact: "He's going to take me fishing and teach me how to bass fish...
...patient's new heart is the AbioCor, made by Abiomed of Danvers, Mass. It is the second type of totally artificial heart to be tested in people - the Jarvik-7, you may recall, was implanted in patient Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982 - but it is a great leap forward. The Jarvik-7 was air-driven, which meant that tubes had to connect huge compressors to the device. Mobility was impossible; infection and complications were inevitable...
...patient will be the first artificial-heart recipient in history to take a shower...