BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

The Jarvik-7 artificial heart, made of aluminum and plastic, was implanted in 1982 in a retired Des Moines, Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. He lived for 112 days.

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

The global market for prosthetic heart valve is forecasted to attain USD 15,294.6 million by 2025, expanding at 7.5% CAGR to reach USD 31,522.6 million by 2035. In 2024, the revenue of prosthetic ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic ... options are not ideal because any artificial valve would require frequent replacement during growth. Surgeons have turned to heart ...

What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart ... valve. Non-surgical procedures to treat valvular disease, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), provide additional treatment ...

When Kensley Frizzell, now 9, was born, doctors discovered she had a small aortic valve ... “They initially gave me two options, a mechanical valve or a donor heart, which we were put on ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart ... valve failure. In terms of repeat valve interventions, only patients who underwent re-do surgical aortic valve replacement or ...