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2. SynCardia Systems - Wikipedia

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   SynCardia Systems, LLC, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, was founded in 2001 and is the sole manufacturer and provider of the world's only clinically proven and commercially approved Total Artificial Heart. [1] The SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has been in clinical use for more than 35 years. [2]

3. Jack Copeland (surgeon) - Wikipedia

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   Jack Greene Copeland (born 1942) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who has established procedures in heart transplantation including repeat heart transplantation, the implantation of total artificial hearts (TAH) to bridge the time to heart transplant, innovations in left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and the technique of "piggybacking" a second heart (heterotopic heart transplant) in ...

4. Artificial heart - Wikipedia

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   An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart.Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation surgery, but research is ongoing to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a deceased genetically engineered pig) is unavailable ...

5. Man lives 555 days without a heart in his body until he ... - AOL

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   Stan Larkin was forced to get a heart transplant in 2014 due to a disease he has battled since he was a teen -- but he was unable to receive one in time. Man lives 555 days without a heart in his ...

6. Christ Hospital Surgeons Perform Fourth-in-the-World Implant ...

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   The groundbreaking procedure at The Christ Hospital was performed by cardiothoracic surgeons Rob Dowling, MD, The Chris and Trey Heekin Family Endowed Chair for Cardiac Transplantation, and Geoff Answini, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery. “The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart effectively replaced the patient’s entire heart function and ...

7. Wayne Griffin - Wikipedia

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   Wayne Robert Griffin (born 1975) is the second person in Australia to be implanted with the SynCardia Total artificial heart. [1] The artificial heart surgery was performed on 20 August 2010, by Dr. Phillip Spratt, the head of the Heart and Lung Transplant Unit of St Vincent's Hospital. He was assisted by Dr. Paul Jantz and supervised by Dr ...

8. AbioCor - Wikipedia

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   AbioCor was a total artificial heart (TAH) developed by the Massachusetts-based company AbioMed. It was fully implantable within a patient, due to a combination of advances in miniaturization, biosensors, plastics and energy transfer. The AbioCor ran on a rechargeable source of power.

9. O. H. Frazier - Wikipedia

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   O. H. "Bud" Frazier is a heart surgeon and director of cardiovascular surgery research at the Texas Heart Institute (THI), best known for his work in mechanical circulatory support (MCS) of failing hearts using left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and total artificial hearts (TAH).