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Prosthetic Heart

Pragati Khond

United Kingdom, October 29: Artificial heart may soon get included in the list of prosthetic limbs to provide a ray of hope to patients who can not get a donor heart.

Under an ongoing clinical trial, it will begin to be implanted within three years in heart patients.

The device invented by France's leading cardiac surgeon, Alain Carpentier, and engineers from Airbus, aircraft manufacturing group, consists of electronic sensors to control the blood flow and heart rate and actually beats like a real heart in its activity.

Professor Carpentier revealed that he spent almost two decades on developing the device saying, “I found it intolerable to see young people — aged 40, 45 or 50 — dying of massive heart attacks without having a prosthesis available to replace their hearts.”

The team of inventors said during a presentation that it is the closest thing yet to the human heart. “If you show the graphs to a cardiac surgeon, he will say it's a human heart, but no, it’s not a human heart, it’s the prosthesis,” said Carpentier.

Shortage of donors has left people battling for life worldwide, without a hope for transplant. Around 20,000 people in a year will receive the artificial heart. Professor Carpentier and his team pointed out shortcomings in the two artificial hearts developed earlier in the U.S., the Jarvik 7 and the AbioCor. Jarvik 7 has wires showing through the skin and AbioCor can make the blood clots resulting in strokes.

In contrast to the earlier inventions, this device detects the body’s activity level and its oxygen requirement and changes its pace accordingly. The new device comes with a “pseudo-skin” of biosynthetic, microporous materials, thus reducing the risk of clots. “This has been the essential problem until now,” Carpentier said.

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jonemartin : re: Prosthetic Heart commented on Monday, December 5, 2022 2:47:23 AM

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