Artificial heart transplant test does not beat

Scientists successfully implanted no artificial heart for a sheep and could test the human body in 2018.

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New Perspectives for Artificial Heart

BiVACOR is different from previous designs. (Photo: Prince Charles Hospital)

BiVACOR is manufactured by Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. It replaces the heart beats with a rotating disk unit that pumps blood throughout the body.

The team from Australia and the United States successfully transplanted the BiVACOR transplant on the sheep's body. Thanks to the artificial titanium rotary disk, the sheep is still alive.

This is a different invention from the earlier artificial heart designs, which have a bubble-like bag body and are bulky in size to mimic the activity of a biological heart. BiVACOR is designed to avoid wear and tear, so it can last more than 10 years compared to previous versions.

" This is a feasible idea." The problem now is to make it more reliable to apply to patients. "Before experimenting with humans, we set a time frame of 3-5 years " Says Daniel Timms, lead designer of this project.

It is expected that by 2018, a campaign will be launched in hopes of raising $ 3.8 million.