An Australian man suffering from severe heart failure lived for more than three months with a titanium heart while waiting ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

The Australian man was the sixth person to to receive the device called BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH), but the first ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart The titanium BiVACOR total artificial heart was invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, and it is a rotary blood pump that can mimic the human heart. The device ...

An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

A man has lived for more than 100 days with an artificial maglev heart working inside his chest. In a landmark moment, he was ...

The implant is designed to sustain patients until a donor heart is available, but BiVACOR’s long-term goal is to enable recipients to live indefinitely with the device without needing a transplant.

A man in Australia becomes the first to survive 100 days with a titanium artificial heart before receiving a transplant.

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part: a levitated rotor held in place by magnets. As the name ...