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| | Dog Artificial Respiration and Heart Massage |
 | | Artificial respiration is an emergency procedure used to assist breathing in an unconscious dog. | | | Heart massage is used when no heartbeat can be heard or felt. | | | Heart massage by itself provides for both movement of air and pumping of blood. |
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| | Artificial Heart |
| | The bold, imaginative surgeons who have made heart transplants and artificial hearts a reality are far ahead of their medical colleagues who are still struggling to unravel the chemical and mechanical influences of heart disease in order to treat it and prevent it. | | | Artificial hearts are able to perform the functions of a real heart. | | | This is still a major drawback to the completely artificial heart, for surgeons dislike relying too heavily on the anti-clotting drugs. |
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| | The “Artificial” Heart - Texas Heart Institute |
| | The artificial heart would have to be totally implantable, unobtrusive in the patient's daily activities, and essentially forgettable by the patient and his or her family and friends," said Frazier. | | | At the core of this artificial heart is a tiny motor enclosed in a titanium shell. | | | In fact, researchers and doctors at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) have been working for more than 30 years to have readily at hand an artificial heart such as the AbioCor, as well as a variety of other heart assist or replacement devices. |
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| | Howstuffworks "How Artificial Hearts Work" |
| | Basically, the heart is a muscular pump that maintains oxygen and blood circulation through your lungs and body. | | | In this article, you will get an in-depth look at how this new artificial heart works, how it's implanted into a patient's chest and who might be a candidate for receiving one of these mechanical hearts. | | | Your heart is the engine inside your body that keeps everything running. |
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| | USATODAY.com - CardioWest heart: Living proof of success |
| | The new study found that 71% of those who received the heart survived for a year, compared with 31% of past patients who did not get the artificial heart. | | | Despite its drawbacks, the heart represents "a triumph of medical technology helping patients in dire circumstances," the University of Utah's Dale Renlund comments in an editorial. | | | But a new study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine found that the artificial heart enabled 79% of 81 heart recipients to survive long enough to get a transplant, compared with 46% of 35 patients who did not receive the heart. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Artificial heart muscle tested |
| | The artificial heart muscle being developed in Leeds could mean patients no longer need transplants if they have an under-performing heart. | | | Researchers are developing a "heart blanket" which could give patients with heart disease a better quality of life. | | | In the past, doctors also used a muscle from the back to help the heart which can be stimulated by a pacemaker, but it wore out more quickly than the cardiac muscle, so it is no longer seen as a solution by heart specialists. |
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| | FDA panel weighs artificial-heart implants |
| | Heart failure, a condition in which the heart muscle cannot adequately pump blood through the body, affects about five million Americans. | | | Perhaps his only chance for survival was a procedure done just once before: the complete replacement of his diseased heart with a two-pound titanium and plastic artificial heart called the AbioCor. | | | The AbioCor, which uses both an internal and an external battery, is one of several devices in the pipeline of a new breed of treatments called "destination therapy." These products are meant to provide permanent, lifetime support to patients' hearts and are the latest trend in the field. |
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| | Artificial heart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Another problem is that an artificial heart requires an external power supply such as a battery pack worn on the patient's waist; no design so far has been able to use the body's own natural biological energy. | | | This synthetic replacement for an organic mammalian heart (usually human), remains one of the long-sought Holy Grails of modern medicine. | | | After about 90 people received the Jarvik device, the artificial hearts were banned for permanent use in patients with heart failure, because most of the patients could not live more than half a year with these devices. |
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| | Paul Winchell: Inventor of the Artficial Heart |
| | Beating in its chest with a rhythm that was quite audible, was an artificial heart that went click-clack but this amazing creature was a clinically functioning bovine that was eating, mooing and defecating. | | | He had her chest open and practically held her little heart in his hand. | | | Until then my patent had been used primarily for animal studies and was much too large for the human chest. |
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| | CNN.com - Patient gets first totally implanted artificial heart - July 3, 2001 |
| | The AbioCor is designed for heart failure patients who have failed all existing therapies. | | | "The major obstacles to all artificial devices, and in particular the new technologies, are making sure the patients have adequate quality of life," said Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the approved investigators who could be implanting the device in another patient. | | | If studies of AbioCor are successful, researchers say 100,000 heart patients could be helped each year. |
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| | CNN.com - Artificial heart patient dies - December 13, 2001 |
| | All the patients received the artificial heart as part of clinical trials of the device. | | | A third AbioCor heart patient died while being fitted with the device and never made it out of surgery. | | | His participation in this clinical trial was of enormous value in proving the effectiveness and reliability of this artificial heart." |
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| | Wired News: Man Receives Artificial Heart |
| | Heart surgery teams at five hospitals had been trained and poised to remove a diseased natural heart and install, in its place, an electric-powered pump designed to fit inside the chest with no wires or tubes sticking through the skin. | | | The goal of the experimental trials with the artificial heart, said Lederman, is to "double the life span of these patients," to 60 days. | | | Surgeons from the University of Louisville implanted the titanium and plastic pump into the patient at Jewish Hospital on Monday, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. |
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| | Nat' Academies Press, The Artificial Heart: Prototypes, Policies, and Patients (1991) |
| | Coronary heart disease (CHD) A condition that reduces the blood flow through the coronary arteries to the heart muscle. | | | The patient's heart remains in place when this device or system is used. | | | Short-term or temporary device A mechanical circulatory support system that is employed for a relatively short period of time in anticipation of either recovery of function by the patient's natural heart or a second intervention such as cardiac transplantation that would permit removal of the device. |
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| | Artificial Heart Fund - Oxford |
| | The shortage of donor hearts is a particular problem in Britain, mainly because we kill each other less frequently on the roads than in other countries, but also because there are few spare intensive-care beds available to maintain people who are already braindead, while organ recipients are matched and identified. | | | Although work is still going on to develop total replacement mechanical hearts, such as the American AbioCor, Jarvik and other specialists in the field believe that assisting rather than replacing the heart is preferable.A mechanical implanted heart is a hefty instrument, with plenty of surface area to attract infection. | | | While a naturally beating heart sends oxygenated blood in rhythmic pulses round the body, Houghton was receiving a constant, pulse flow. |
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| | Quest for artificial device has been full of contention, drama |
| | Still, Dr. Denton Cooley of Houston seemed to have met the goal in 1969 when he implanted an artificial heart in the chest of 47-year-old Haskell Karp, a dying heart surgery patient. | | | But DeBakey refused, saying that Jarvik's heart was little different from the Baylor heart that he did not consider ready for human use. | | | But in 1982, Dr. William DeVries, in cooperation with Jarvik, implanted the Jarvik-7 heart into the chest of 61-year-old Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist dying of heart failure. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Totally artificial hearts offer hope |
| | LVADs are surgically inserted inside the abdominal or chest cavity to augment the pumping of the heart’s main chamber, the left ventricle. | | | The patients were fitted with the device for an average of 79 days and, unlike Barney Clark, their quality of life improved. | | | Artificial heart man says whirring is biggest change |
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| | Trustees Hear Update On Artificial Heart Research |
| | While the goal of a total replacement for a natural heart is still present today and was the driving force initially, the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has saved thousands of lives and continues to be a major part of heart replacement research, Snyder says. | | | The first application for the LVAD was to permit recovery of a damaged natural heart. | | | "The heart's primary function as a pump has been recognized for many years. |
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| | Artificial Heart Technology - NIE: Newspapers in Education - The Cincinnati Enquirer |
| | Artificial hearts have had a poor reputation since the unsuccessful experiments of the 1980s. | | | Because of other health conditions he was not a candidate human-heart transplant; the 2,000 or so that are available each year are reserved for patients with a better prognosis. | | | Extend your study of the circulatory system by visiting Harvard Medical School's Heart Basics, and interactive tutorial that lets you explore workings of the human heart in visual detail. |
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| | ScienceDaily: FDA Approves Temporary Artificial Heart |
| | Heart valve -- In anatomy, the heart valves are valves in the heart that maintain the unidirectional flow of blood by opening and closing depending on the difference in pressure on each... | | | University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center Discharges Its First Patient With Permanent Artificial Heart (July 21, 2004) -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is discharging its first patient who was successfully implanted, on July 2, with the Heartmate XVE Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS). | | | The product is a pulsating bi-ventricular device that is implanted into the chest to replace the patient's left and right ventricles (the bottom half of the heart). |
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| | Heart Assist |
| | As such, much research is currently being conducted to design a device that could possible replace the human heart and allow the patient to live a normal, healthy life. | | | Cardiac arrhythmias can arise from dysfunctional cardiac nerve conduction, dead or damaged areas of cardiac muscle, or blocked coronary arteries that cause a portion of the cardiac muscle to be dysfunctional (the common heart attack). | | | Defibrillators are medical devices used to stop the natural beating of human cardiac muscle tissue after it has begun to beat arrhythmically or erratically. |
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| | FDA Approves Temporary Artificial Heart |
| | Implanted in the chest, the artificial heart replaces the bottom half of the heart and is sewn onto the top half of the patient's original heart. | | | The device malfunctioned in 18% of recipients, and 17 patients died before a donor heart could be found. | | | Want your organs to help someone else after you die? |
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| | NEJM -- Clinical use of the total artificial heart |
| | This experience should encourage further clinical trials with the artificial heart, but we emphasize that the procedure is still highly experimental. | | | We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. | | | The mean blood pressure was 84 +/- 8 mm Hg, and cardiac output was generally maintained at 6.7 +/- 0.8 liters per minute for the right heart and 7.5 +/- 0.8 for the left, resulting in postoperative diuresis and relief of congestive failure. |
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| | Wired News: Artificial Heart: Death Sentence? |
| | Surgeons in Louisville, Kentucky, replaced a patient's diseased heart with a titanium and plastic pump on Monday in the first human trial of a technology expected to bring new hope to patients with failing hearts. | | | To qualify for the trial, each of those patients must be expected to die within 30 days, be ineligible for a human heart transplant, and untreatable with existing methods of surgical intervention or drug therapy. | | | Instead, they say their participation in medical research was a way to slap their disease with its own death sentence. |
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| | CFD Review Researchers Use CFD to Examine Artificial Heart Valves |
| | Current mechanical heart valves are made from biocompatible materials such as titanium and pyrolytic carbon. | | | A soft fabric sewing ring, which is attached to the valve orifice is utilized by the cardiac surgeon to suture the valve into the patient’s heart at the correct anatomical location. | | | Since 1960, cardiac surgeons have been implanting artificial heart valves in patients who require heart valve replacement. |
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| | heart failure, heart diseases, cardiomyopathy, artificial heart |
| | It is important to learn about heart failure, how to keep in good balance, and when to call the doctor. | | | If you have heart failure, you will enjoy better health and quality of life if you take care of yourself and keep yourself in balance. | | | Health Information pages are informational handouts created by the Heart Failure Management Team and used for patients throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System. |
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| | CardioWest(tm) Total Artificial Heart Wins Approval from FDA |
| | A professor of surgery at the UA College of Medicine and a co-director of the UA Sarver Heart Center, Dr. Copeland is a world leader in cardiac transplantation, as well as in the development and use of artificial heart devices. | | | had a one-year survival rate of 70 percent, compared with 31 percent for patients in the study who did not receive the artificial heart. | | | The FDA's approval is a stamp of credibility for "all of the members of our team who have worked hard and believed with me that we could save the lives of some of the sickest heart failure patients and make them better candidates for cardiac transplantation," Dr. Copeland said. |
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| | israelinsider: Culture: Israeli hooked up to artificial heart has very real smile |
| | "The artificial heart allows the patient to heal to a good degree and reach the real heart transplant as a healthy person," Stemler said. | | | The surgery was performed this week at the Rabin Medical Center (RMC)- Beilinson Campus in Petach Tikva. | | | Alon Stemler checks on Edmund Peretz after his Rabin Medical Center surgical team connected him to a mobile mechanical heart pump. |
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| | FDA advisors recommend artificial heart - Heart Health - MSNBC.com |
| | The CardioWest isn’t what the average person thinks of when hearing “artificial heart.” Initial attempts to use it as a permanent heart replacement 22 years ago, under the name Jarvik-7, failed. | | | Even a researcher who helped test the CardioWest, Dr. James Long of the University of Utah, acknowledged his own hospital treats no more than two to four patients a year who could benefit from it. | | | Maker SynCardia Systems Inc. says the CardioWest will buy a little time for end-stage, heart failure patients. |
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| | Heart Failure Center - HeartCenterOnline: |
| | Heart failure (also known as congestive heart failure) is a condition in which the heart is not able to pump enough blood to meet the oxygen demands of the body. | | | Please consult your healthcare provider with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your condition. | | | All of our patient guides are edited by our Physician Advisory Board. |
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| | Artificial Heart Helps People Awaiting Transplants |
| | Though researchers have been working on artificial hearts that could permanently replace diseased hearts, there are no such devices approved for permanent use. | | | There were 17 patients in the study who died before a donor heart became available. | | | SynCardia studied the artificial heart in 81 transplant patients with severe biventricular heart failure at five medical centers in the United States. |
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| | Artificial Heart Buys Time Until Transplant |
| | For the study, the research team at the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona tracked 81 patients over nine years who received an artificial heart. | | | "The way to look at this is this is one small step in treating end-stage heart failure, but from a technology point of view, it's a major step," he tells WebMD. | | | An estimated 100,000 heart failure patients need a heart transplant to live, since their condition is too severe to be helped with drugs or other treatments. |
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| | Jarvik Heart Home - Welcome |
| | Jarvik Heart is a leading developer of miniaturized heart assist devices for the treatment of severe congestive heart failure. | | | The Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker® mechanical heart, the company's silent titanium axial-flow blood pump, has successfully sustained and improved the condition of heart failure patients awaiting heart transplants, as well as those who have chosen the device for lifetime-use. | | | In 2005, Jarvik Heart has trained new implant centers in Australia, Japan and France — plus additional centers in the U.S. — to implant the Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker®. |
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| | Las Vegas SUN: FDA Advisers Debating Artificial Heart |
| | Under this program, the mechanical heart must promise "probable benefit" without too much risk for patients who have run out of other treatments for their heart failure, are too sick for a heart transplant, and are likely to die within a month. | | | FDA gave the AbioCor a tepid review, calling it difficult to assess quality of life. | | | She asked if, for some patients, the AbioCor was really "prolonging life, not prolonging death," and said it was important to publicly debate that question to avoid unrealistic patient expectations. |
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| | Tucson artificial-heart maker in sync to grow |
| | During trials, 78 percent of the patients who got the CardioWest heart survived to get a heart transplant, and of those who got a human heart, 81 percent survived more than a year. | | | Conversely, more than 90 percent of other patients with similar heart problems but no artificial heart died before getting a donor heart, said Steve Langford, SynCardia's director of manufacturing. | | | SynCardia is a direct outgrowth of the world's first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, which was implanted in Tucson in 1982 by Dr. Jack Copeland, who developed the CardioWest heart. |
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| | Bionic Heart |
| | By the summer of 2001, cardiac surgeons hope to implant the first plastic, battery-powered, fully artificial heart into a human patient. | | | The most critical determining factors include: age, body size, overall health and a lack of other options for survival. | | | Implantation works like this: the heart of the patient is removed, and cuffs are sewn onto the patients atria, connecting the artificial pumping chamber to the patient's own vascular structure. |
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| | FDA Approves Artificial Heart For Those Awaiting Transplant (washingtonpost.com) |
| | But the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart offers hope to the dozens of Americans who would otherwise die each year without it, and its approval by the Food and Drug Administration was hailed as an important, long-sought moment in the troubled quest to replace the human heart with a machine. | | | But critics questioned the value of the $100,000 device, saying it will only add expense to the nation's already bloated health care bill without increasing the number of heart patients who survive. | | | washingtonpost.com > Health > Condition Center > Heart Conditions |
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| | Artificial Heart |
| | We also monitor experimental clinical use of the artificial heart. | | | The American Heart Association monitors experimental laboratory work. | | | ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease |
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| | NOVA Online Electric Heart |
| | The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. | | | Merely a good idea for a TV show a quarter century ago, the $6 Million Man - or woman - could practically exist today, with everything from hips of steel to laboratory-grown skin regularly replacing what nature originally provided. | | | Put your finger on the pulse of how the human heart works with an automatically changing color graphic of a heart in cross-section. |
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| | Heart Failure, Transplant Team Recognized for Work with Artificial Heart Pumps - URMC Press Room |
| | It also serves as a training site for physicians from other medical centers who are learning to implant the artificial heart pumps. | | | This honor recognizes the team’s outstanding work with ABIOMED ventricular assist devices and some of the best clinical outcomes in the country. | | | The Artificial Heart Program, part of Strong Memorial Hospital’s Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been named an ABIOMED Center of Excellence. |
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| | UCLA Implantable Artificial Heart |
| | His participation in this clinical trial was of enormous value in proving the effectiveness and reliability of this artificial heart.” | | | “Our family thanks all involved in UCLA’s Heart Transplant Program,” said a family member. | | | The patient is survived by his wife, seven children and 10 grandchildren. |
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| | Discover: The Beat Goes On - artificial heart transplants |
| | Why is the human heart so hard for researchers to imitate? | | | For a moment he seems to think it's real. | | | The most famous of them, the Jarvik-7, was implanted in a patient named Barney Clark in 1982. |
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| | Artificial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Artificial refers to something which is not natural, often implying that it was created or manufactured by humans. | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Look up artificial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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| | heart, artificial. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | external or surgically implanted mechanical device designed to replace a patient’s diseased heart. | | | Two major drawbacks of the Jarvik-7 were the danger of stroke from clots formed in the artificial heart and the need for the patient to be hooked to the external air compressor that powered the pump. | | | By 1989 such devices had largely become a bridge to human heart transplants (see transplantation, medical). |
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| | ABIOMED Home |
| | The AB5000™ and the BVS 5000® systems provide temporary circulatory support with the goal of recovering the heart. | | | The AbioCor and the AbioCor II are the world's first completely self-contained replacement hearts. |
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| | SynCardia Systems: CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t) System for Bridge to Transplant |
| | 1.20.05 American Heart Association Cites SynCardia's CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart as Major Advance in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2004 > more | | | Visit our Medical Professional Center for information about: | | | Entrepreneur and business leader to provide strategic counsel on the continued development and marketing of the CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart. |
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| | USATODAY.com - FDA approves artificial heart implant |
| | That experiment and others that followed made worldwide headlines, but not for their success. | | | "It will be popular in end-stage heart disease centers, where they see sick patients who have no other options," said Jack Copeland, a professor at the University of Arizona and a SynCardia founder. | | | Two decades and countless prototypes later, doctors reported in August that the retooled heart had sustained 79% of 81 patients until they could obtain a transplant, compared with 46% of 35 patients who did not get the heart. |
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| | Whitaker News: New Artificial Heart Approved for Trials |
| | ROSSLYN, Va., Feb. 7, 2001 -- Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Mass., has won approval from federal regulators to begin human clinical trials of an internal, battery-powered artificial heart as a permanent alternative to a heart transplant. | | | The device, which has been tested in calves, is expected to be priced at less than the cost of a heart transplant, analysts have said. | | | About 100,000 Americans have end-stage heart failure each year, while only about 2,000 human hearts become available for transplant. |
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| | Peter Gizzi; Artificial Heart |
| | Gizzi employs humor and imagination to push at the envelope of rationality obscuring our vision like a cataract." | | | "Artificial Heart is as nimble and full of wit as it is knowing and 'versed' in poetic device and literary history. | | | "There is a darkness at the heart of Peter Gizzi's new collection of poems, Artificial Heart, that is far from artificial. |
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| | NMAH: AbioCor Total Artificial Heart |
| | Completely contained within the body, no tubes protrude through the skin, nor is the patient tethered to a noisy bedside console, as with air-powered hearts. | | | The AbioCor is a two-chamber pump designed to perform like a natural human heart. | | | Tools, who suffered from irreversible congestive heart failure, chose to have his diseased heart removed and replaced with the plastic and titanium pump. |
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