The Bivacor, in the picture, is the replacement of a complete titneum heart.Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty
An Australian man in his forties became the first person in the world to leave the hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. The device is used as a stop party for people with heart failure awaiting the heart of the donor, and the former receivers of this type of artificial heart remained in American hospitals while it is in place.
The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donor human heart. The man recovers well, according to a statement issued by St. Vincent Hospital in Sydney, Australia, where the operations were conducted.
Australian is the sixth person in the world that receives the device, known as Bivacor, but the first to live with him for more than a month.
“This is definitely an important development in this field,” says Julian Smith, a heart surgeon at the Victorian Heart Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
“It’s incredibly innovative,” Sarah Aitkin, a blood vessel surgeon at the University of Sydney, says, but she adds that there are still many questions that were not answered about the level of job with which people can achieve the final cost of the device. “This type of research is very difficult because it is very expensive,” Aitkeen says.
This last success will help researchers understand how people deal with this device in the real world. “It was not constantly monitored by the medical teams,” says Rogers, who led the first trial of the device in the United States last year.
In all cases, Bivacor was used as a temporary measure before the donor’s heart is available. Some cardiologists say it can become a permanent option for people who are not qualified to plant because of their age or other health conditions, although the idea still needs to be tested in experiments. In the United States, nearly 7 million adults live with heart failure, but about 4,500 heart transplants were performed in 2023, partly due to a lack of donors.
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BIVACOR was invented by biological engineer Daniel Timmes, who founded a company named after the device, with the offices of Huntington Beach, California, Southport, Australia.
The device is the replacement of the total heart and works as a continuous pump in which it pushes the dizziness of the hypnotist of blood in regular pulses throughout the body. The rope covered under the skin connects the device with a portable portable portable control unit that works on batteries a day and can be connected to tubes at night.
Many mechanical hearts support the left side of the heart, usually work by collecting blood in a bag, which praises about 35 million times a year to pump blood. But these devices have many parts and often suffer from failure. Rogers says that Bivacor, which has only one moving part, will theoretically face less problems than mechanical problems.