An Australian man has made history as the first individual globally to leave the hospital with a titanium artificial heart called BiVACOR, used as a temporary solution for heart failure patients awaiting donor hearts. He lived with the device for over three months before receiving a human heart transplant. Experts recognize this innovation as significant, yet they voice concerns about the unknowns related to its functionality and costs, highlighting ongoing research needs to understand how patients cope with such devices outside monitored environments.
The latest success will help researchers to understand how people cope with this device in the real world, as they were not being constantly monitored by medical teams.
This is certainly an important development in the field, emphasizing the need for further study on the device's long-term functionality and its economic aspects.
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