Man Leaves Hospital with Bioprosthetic Heart
From: Medical Design Technology - 01/21/2015

A man equipped with the lightest and most advanced total artificial heart in
the world was released from Nantes University Hospital earlier this year and
has returned home, said Carmat, the designer and developer of the electric
heart. The heart was implanted in August.

He was discharged home in early 2015 after training in the management of the
artificial heart, a silent, electric portable system.

The Carmat heart is designed to imitate the natural heart in its size,
structural materials, and innovative physiological functions. It was created
under the medical expertise of Professor Alain Carpentier, known for
inventing Carpentier-Edwards heart valves, which are the most used in the
world, and the technological expertise of Airbus Group, world aerospace
leader.

Portable power and alert systems like the one in this patient’s heart will
now be able to be used by other patients involved in the ongoing artificial
heart trial, Carmat said.

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Links:
Carmat heart
http://www.carmatsa.com/en/carmat-heart/technology/prosthesis

Professor Alain Carpentier, The Modern "Father" of Heart Valve Surgery (video 15:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQr1xOGlaMk