7 Things About Artificial Hearts That You Should Know.
Saturday, November 11, 2017 IST
Cardiovascular disease, which includes heart failure, is the number one cause of death, killing more people worldwide than all cancers combined.
The need for donor hearts is growing as heart disease continues to claim an increasing portion of the world’s population. However, the number of donor hearts available for transplant has been flat in some countries and is declining in others, according to 2013 figures from the Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
To save adults and adolescents from dying of end-stage biventricular (both sides) heart failure, medical teams from around the world have developed 13 different types of artificial hearts that have been implanted into patients since 1969.
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