Video: Chinese successful heart transplant for sheep

Chinese doctors implanted artificial hearts for the sheep Tianjiu No.4 to study before they can be applied to humans.

According to CCTV, the artificial heart transplant has been successful and could also be applied to people, giving great hope to patients with heart disease in this country.

Chronic heart failure is one of the most common and dangerous cardiovascular diseases in the world. According to estimates by experts, about 80 million people worldwide suffer from this disease, including 16 million Chinese patients. Because of the lack of a healthy heart, many patients died while waiting for a heart transplant.