Thursday, January 2, 2014

First patient receives next-generation artificial heart replacement




FB Top Comments |  Yea now the poor can have new hearts!!! Wait... oh. | but the heart is 3 times larger than a normal heart so only 65% of all patients (85% of men)can fit it in their chests. | So, when can I apply to be a repo man? | Science fucking rocks! | The man is still waiting for a donor heart as this is not a permanent solution | It works, it will give him an extra 5 year until they find a proper donor. | I was going to donate my kidney but I feel science is advancing so much I dont even need too.. | when a heart made from bioprinting? | Even if the number of patients which can get such a heart is (until now) limited, it s still fascinating and amazing how medicine evolves. | That's awesome but that has to.suck to always have to rely on a battery | Science is not a sin. Ignorance and not advancing our civilization is a sin! | I hate to be cynical ... but why is this going into the chest of a 75 year old man ? Are you telling me that there is no one younger who could benefit from this ? And NO I am not some "young kid" who thinks that all "old people" are out of touch I am 63 and would prefer that a device such as this go into a younger person. | It weighs 3 times as much as a normal natural heart - the beauty and complexity of human anatomy | Smaller ones need to be made for children. My 9-year old nephew passed away about a month ago after receiving a total artificial heart. He is the smallest and youngest to have one - unfortunately, it was too large and his other organs began to shut down. | any material you use to put in the body is a "biomaterial." perhaps you mean naturally derived materials? biomimetic materials? | All that wiring could be handled eventually with nanonics. That would erase the need for any externals | Within the next year there will be an explosion of bio-fabrication courses at universities! Fantastic | this is great, but i think it is mostly a transitional technology. the future seems to be towards growing organs made from our own body's | Right now the common method (though definitely not the only) is to obtain a heart and cleanse it of all blood and tissue cells leaving just the 'scaffold' of the organ, then apply cells from the patients own body to reattach the tissue, and then get it in there....I think that is what constitutes "biomaterial", the blood and cells and donor organ... The chances of rejection are super low since it is the bodies own cells, but there is still a chance since the cleaned organ is still foreign (though that chance is low, it is there).... Can't wait for the day we can just create an entirely compatible heart (or other organs) with just stem cells... You go science, get your nerd on lol | At this rate, immortality should be perfectly plausible in a few decades... for those who can afford it. | He died two weeks later from pneumonia, I think. Amazing step in science though. | That is purely mechanical if I remember correctly. Made of plastics and metals. This says from bio materials. I've seen articles referring to attempts to create a biological replacement. | The patient in this story only had the procedure performed two weeks ago - if he died today I doubt we'd know about it quite yet.
I think you're thinking of the guy a couple years ago who had the Continuous Flow heart transplant? He didn't have a heart beat because the device used turbines to pump his blood continuously instead of rhythmically. | well, that's fooking wonderful - but WHEN will humanity wake up to the fact that this planet is way overpopulated, and cannot continue to sustain ever-increasing numbers of people? | Violet Station artificial hearts can't be rejected by the body because it contains no cells at all (therefore no foreign ones either)-nothing for the immune system to react with, unless it was an allergen | ow does the heart respond to exertion. So if he walked up a flight of stairs for example. He would use more oxygen and a normal heart would respond to that by pumping faster....

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