The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

A man has lived for more than 100 days with an artificial maglev heart working inside his chest. In a landmark moment, he was ...

An Australian man has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with a total artificial heart ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of ...

A man in Australia becomes the first to survive 100 days with a titanium artificial heart before receiving a transplant.

Sydney: An Australian man in his forties became the first person in the world to leave a hospital and live 100 days with an artificial titanium heart, marking a historic milestone in medical science.

The implant is designed to sustain patients until a donor heart is available, but BiVACOR’s long-term goal is to enable recipients to live indefinitely with the device without needing a transplant.

The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) during a six-hour ...

An Australian man in his 40s survived 100 days with an artificial titanium heart before receiving a donor heart transplant, making medical history. The BiVACOR heart, developed by Dr Daniel Timms ...

The device kept him alive for more than 100 days, allowing him to regain strength and mobility before ultimately receiving a real human heart transplant. For the first time, a person with a totally ...