The artificial heart has no heart

June 17, 2011

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For the first time in medical practice, the patient was implanted artificial heart not quite the usual modifications. Craig Lewis , An American of 55 years, five weeks lived without a pulse after the device is a new generation has replaced his heart. The man still died, but the assurances of doctors, heart unit worked fine.

New - a combination of two devices that replace the ventricles. Despite the fact that the usual pulsation   is absent, the blood circulates in the body continuously. Before transplant who died was in a coma, a new heart allowed the patient to sit and talk.

Innovation has passed a series of tests on animals. A distinctive feature of the device is lack of heartbeat That, according to doctors, is very good, because in other cases, the artificial heart transplant another modification, due to increased ripple occurs rapid wear of the device.

In addition, the modified approach to circulation blood. Now the blood as it scrolls, not distilled by reducing, avoiding the formation of blood clots and bleeding. From now on patients with heart failure there is an additional alternative. After all, before there were only 2 Released: waiting for heart transplant or an artificial analogue of the traditional.