Whatever happened to the Artificial Heart?!
Question:
Whatever happened to the Artificial Heart?
Was it a failure and is it still in use?
Answers:
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“On July 2, 2001, Robert Tools received the AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart produced by the AbioMed company of Danvers, Massachusetts. It was the first completely self-contained artificial heart transplant. The surgery was done by University of Louisville doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Tom Christerson survived for 17 months after another AbioCor transplant. On September 6, 2006 the AbioCor device became the first fully implantable artificial heart to be approved under 'Humanitarian Use Device' rules.[1]
The 'CardioWest' temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH‑t) was developed from the Jarvik-7 by University of Arizona researchers and approved for use in 2004.[2] It is the first implantable artificial heart to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and has also been approved by the CE. The TAH-t is used only in patients with end stage biventricular failure as a way to improve life expectancy while they are waiting for a heart transplant. In a pivotal clinical study, these patients were successfully transplanted 79% of the time;[3], One-year and five-year survival rates after heart transplant among these patients were 86 and 64 percent. The longest TAH‑t implantation so far went 602 days (20.4 months).[4] There are several medical centers where this device can be implanted:
United States: [5]
- University Medical Center (Tucson, AZ) [1]
- Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH) [2]
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (Richmond, VA) [3]
- Aurora St. Luke's (Milwaukee, WI) [4]
- University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor, MI) [5]
- Penn State Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, PA) [6]
- Ohio State University Medical Center (Columbus, OH) [7]
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) [8]
- Barnes Jewish Hospital (St. Louis, MO) [9]
Canada:
- Montreal Heart Institute (Quebec, Canada) [10]
Europe:
- Groupe Hospitalier La Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris, France) [11]
- Hôpital Guillaume et René Laennec (Nantes, France) [12]
- Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin / German Heart Institute Berlin (Berlin, Germany) [13]
- Herz-und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein Westfalen / Heart and Diabetes Center (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) [14]
- Herzzentrum Leipzig GmbH Universitaetsklinik (Leipzig, Germany) [15]
- Universitäts Klinikum Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany) [16]
- Universitätsklinikum Münster (Munster, Germany) [17]
- Herzzentrum Köln (Cologne, Germany) [18]
- University Hospital Munich (Munich, Germany) [19]
- Friedrich-Alexander University Hospital (Nuremburg, Germany) [20]
With increased understanding of the heart and continuing improvements in prosthetics engineering, computer science, electronics, battery technology, and fuel cells, a practical artificial heart may be a reality in the 21st century.”