artificial heart


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Noun1.artificial heart - a pump that replaces the natural heart
implant - a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue
Jarvik artificial heart, Jarvik heart - a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success
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ar·ti·fi·cial heart

n. corazón artificial, aparato que bombea la sangre con la capacidad funcional de un corazón normal.
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4 (Petra) -- A Chinese artificial heart design used in patients with aerospace technology will go into clinical research by the end of this year, which may help people suffering from heart problems.
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An artificial heart may also be used temporarily and is removed once the heart starts functioning normally.
Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, the company manufactures the world's only commercially approved total artificial heart. In clinical use for more than 35 years and with more than 1,800 implants, the temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH) is the most widely used and extensively studied TAH in the world.
Artificial Heart, that has a life of five years or more, offers patients new [hope].
1 / 2 The center's Artificial Heart Transplantation Program began in 2017, and cooperates with international centers in the same specialty.
The artificial heart transplant program at the Center is associated with continuous medical cooperation with international centers in the same specialty, placing it in the ranks of leading centers in the artificial of industrial heart transplantation and circulatory support systems.
Karachi -- Experiment to plant artificial heart in the National Institute of Cardiology could not succeed and two patients have died.
Pervez Chaudhry said that an artificial heart costs more than Rs100 million.
But according to a recent Technology Review article, a new and incredibly simple artificial heart design could help solve the heart scarcity issue.
In a South Korean first, an infant has successfully received an artificial heart.