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

Australia has marked a historic moment in medical innovation with the successful implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. A man who received the device in a six-hour surgery last ...

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

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, a plumber’s son, started by mimicking a human circulatory system using ...

According to a statement issued Wednesday by St Vincent’s Hospital, Monash University and BiVACOR, the US-Australian company behind the device, the man, who had severe heart failure, was ...

On July 26 of last year, we reported that the first maglev artificial heart made by the BiVACOR company had been implanted inside the body of a patient at the Texas Heart Institute. The goal of ...

The man had undergone a procedure that lasted for six hours to have the artificial heart implanted. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Why Trust Us? Millions of people around the world suffer from heart failure with not nearly enough donors to go around. A new life-saving titanium device called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart ...