Cardiac surgeons of the Omsk regional hospital have successfully implanted first two artificial hearts to patients with serious heart failure.Two patients, a 35-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, now have artificial hearts made of titanium and silicone. Medics say both patients are feeling well.
The patients will require about three weeks to fully recover, before they return to usual active lifestyle. An artificial heat weighs 284 grams. To date similar surgery, involving long-term assisted blood circulation, has been performed on 23 patients in Russia.
The technique of assisted blood circulation has been developed in Germany, and Russian surgeons have mastered it up.
Via : russia-ic
