artificial heart

French surgeons implant second artificial heart

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Latest operation took place amid high secrecy in Nantes eight months after first heart was implanted in a patient who died 75 days later.

France's first artificial heart transplant patient dies

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The 76 year-old man, given the Carmat artificial heart at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris in December, died for reasons still undetermined.

Artificial heart patient in France 'doing well'

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Doctors say the 75-year-old patient with the new heart is eating normally and able to sit up 12 days after transplant operation.

World's first artificial heart implant performed in Paris

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The Georges Pompidou Hospital said the male patient who received the heart, which will beat at least five years, was awake and responding well.