Artificial Heart

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for total artificial hearts (TAH). These technologies are used in cardiovascular surgery to temporarily or permanently replace the heart in advanced heart failure patients.

Achieving greater gender equity in healthcare is about making systemic changes on a comprehensive scale

Feature | Womens Cardiovascular Health | By Jennifer Jones-McMeans, Ph.D., DVP

Closing the Gap in Healthcare by Addressing Gender Bias

Most of us would like to think we don’t make snap judgments or hold preconceived ideas about people based on factors ...

June 27, 2022

Expanded US Patent and Trademark Office application 17/093,365 includes diagnosis of heart disease based on combined AI analysis of echo images and cardiac biomarkers

News | Artificial Intelligence

Us2.ai Receives CE Mark and Patent Allowance for Clinical Workflow Using AI-echo with Cardiac Biomarkers

June 8, 2022 — Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm backed by, IHH Healthcare, Heal Partners, Sequoia India, EDBI ...

June 08, 2022

With the increase of patients experiencing heart failure and clinical challenges to manage advanced heart failure conditions, therapies with implantable devices have become an essential treatment method

Feature | Heart Failure | By Jean-Luc Boulnois, Ph.D.

Effectively Treating Heart Failure: New Technology on the Horizon

The current standard of care for heart failure (HF) is guideline-directed medical therapy combined with device-based ...

May 04, 2022

This ERC Advanced Grant is awarded to scientists with more than ten years of research experience who have already played a prominent role in their field.

News | Heart Failure

MDC Receives ERC Advanced Grant for Cardiac Research

April 27, 2022 – The contractile and elastic properties of the heart are finely tuned. This is a prerequisite for the ...

April 27, 2022

The Boston University-led team behind the gadget—nicknamed miniPUMP, and officially known as the cardiac miniaturized Precision-enabled Unidirectional Microfluidic Pump—says the technology could also pave the way for building lab-based versions of other organs, from lungs to kidneys.

News | Artificial Heart

New Miniature Heart Could Help Speed Heart Disease Cures

April 25, 2022 – There’s no safe way to get a close-up view of the human heart as it goes about its work: you can’t just ...

April 25, 2022

Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, executive director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and the Mark S. Siegel Family Foundation Distinguished Professor

News | Heart Failure

Cell-Derived Therapy May Help Repair Abnormal Heart Rhythm

April 12, 2022 — Vesicles secreted from human heart cells may repair damaged tissue and prevent lethal heart rhythm ...

April 12, 2022

MedWatch, The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program, announced that Pfizer is recalling Accuretic (quinapril hydrochloride/hydrochlorothiazide) tablets distributed by Pfizer as well as two authorized generics distributed by Greenstone (quinapril HCL and hydrochlorothiazide and quinapril HCl/hydrochlorothiazide) due to the presence of a nitrosamine, N-nitroso-quinapril, above the Acceptable Daily Intake level.

Feature | Cardiovascular Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Top 10: Most Read Cardiology Content in March 2022

Here is what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of cardiology during the month of March ...

March 31, 2022

Aeson total artificial heart showing Open view with pumps and electronics (blue), blood chambers (maroon) and conduits (top, white). Image courtesy of Carmat.

News | Artificial Heart

Carmat Announces the Restart of Production

March 28, 2022 — Carmat, the designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to ...

March 28, 2022

In January, The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) successfully executed a groundbreaking porcine heart transplant procedure in a human. This was the first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human patient.

Feature | Cardiovascular Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

DAIC’s Top 10 for the Month of February

Here is what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the field of cardiology during the month of ...

March 04, 2022

Feature | Heart Failure | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Pig Heart Transplant Patient Continues to Thrive

In January, The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) ...

February 16, 2022

Videos | Heart Failure

VIDEO: Details on the First Pig Heart Transplant Surgery in a Human

The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) announced the first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig ...

January 11, 2022

The first pig heart to be transplanted into a human is moved from a perfusion transport system to the patient during the groundbreaking procedure January 7, 2022. This is the first human to receive a pig heart transplant. #Pigheart

Feature | Heart Failure | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

First Human Receives a Pig Heart Transplant

January 10, 2022 — The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland Medical Center ...

January 10, 2022

Two of the top technology headlines this past month was the FDA clearance of the Abbott Portico transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device, and the first women to receive a Carmat artificial heart.

Feature | BY Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

October 6, 2021 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...

October 06, 2021

Cardiothoracic surgeons with UofL Health – Jewish Hospital and the University of Louisville performed the world’s first Carmat Aeson bioprosthetic total artificial heart implantation in a female patient on Sept. 14, 2021. The device was small enough to fit into the woman's smaller chest cavity. The device is being tested as a bridge to heart transplant rather than use of a LVAD. Photo by UofL Health.

News | Heart Failure

First Woman in World Receives New Type of Artificial Heart

September 22, 2021 — A cardiothoracic surgical team with University of Louisville Health – Jewish Hospital has performed ...

September 22, 2021

The Carmat system, an experimental artificial heart includes an autoregulation control mechanism, or Auto-Mode, that can adjust to the changing needs of patients treated for end-stage heart failure. Outcomes in the first series of patients managed with the new heart replacement pump in Auto-Mode are presented in the journal of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO).

News | Artificial Heart

Carmat Artificial Heart Shows Promising Automatic Regulation of Blood Flow

June 18, 2021 – An experimental artificial heart includes an autoregulation control mechanism, or Auto-Mode, that can ...

June 23, 2021