Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79.

An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to survive more than 100 days with an artificial titanium heart as he waited to receive a donor transplant.

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade ...

BiVACOR's Total Artificial Heart has been implanted, offering hope for heart failure patients. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson has more on the quantum leap in cardiac care technology.

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.

This past July, cardiac surgeon O. H. “Bud” Frazier helped achieve the near culmination of his life’s work: the implantation in a patient’s chest of an artificial heart that, theoretically ...

Modern technique offers safer path to the heart, revolutionizing cardiac procedures By Health IQ digital Dec 19, 2024 7:00 am Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / PeopleImages.com - Yuri A ...