artificial heart: see heart, artificial heart, artificial, external or surgically implanted mechanical device designed to replace a patient's diseased heart. The first one used on a human being, the Jarvik-7, was implanted (1982) in Barney Clark, who lived for 112 days; another patient, William Schroeder,
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artificial heart

Machine or mechanical pump that maintains blood circulation in the human body. The heart-lung machine, a mechanical pump, can maintain circulation for a few hours while the heart is stopped for surgery. It shunts blood away from the heart, oxygenates it, and returns it to the body. No device has yet been developed for total, long-term replacement of the heart; existing artificial hearts reduce the heart's workload by pumping between beats or acting as an auxiliary ventricle and are suitable only as temporary replacements in patients awaiting transplant. See also pacemaker.

artificial heart [¦ärd·ə¦fish·əl ′härt]

(medicine)

An endoprosthetic device used to replace or assist the heart.

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The patient, 16-year-old Francisco "Frank" De Santiago, who was implanted with a mechanical heart pump called the HeartMate II on May 19, 2009, was discharged on Oct.

First US teen patient with implanted mechanical heart device ... by Asian News International

Mechanical heart assist devices for end-stage heart failure patients were first introduced in Singapore when NHCS set up its Mechanical Heart Devices (MHD) Programme in 2001.

Singapore hospital unveils artificial heart by TradeArabia (Manama, Bahrain)

Oral anti-coagulation therapy is an important treatment for patients with specific medical conditions such as mechanical heart valves, atrial fibrillation or thromboembolic venous diseases.

Improved control of anti-coagulation therapy by AMT Events

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