First Artificial Heart Implanted in Human Patient

[Hairless Mammoth]

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

Yeah, I remember reading about artificial hearts in a sixth grade science book 15 years ago and was wondering if I just didn't remember they were experimental. I guess Google is getting so evil no one wants to look up anything on it and also forgot there's still alternative search engines.

 

[Yoshi4102]

1 month = success... I hope while the patient is conscious, he's saying his goodbyes and writing his will

 

[strumbore]

how terrible. The patient was cut open and given a heart he can only hope to live 5 more years by. What then, are they gonna rip him open again? Even if I were elderly I still would not want an organ with an expiration date. They said themselves that 1 month = success, talk about lowering the bar! I would not believe they had my best interest sincerely.

 

[Yopaz]

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

Well, that heart let the patient live for a few months while also causing a great deal of suffering and he was hooked up to a machine too heavy to move. On top of that it greatly increased the risk of causing a stroke. Even the improved version wouldn't extend someone's life more than 2 years. This one might be able to last 5 years. How is a possible improvement not news? Just because a discovery is based on existing material that doesn't mske it less impressive. Following that logic most scientific discoveries csn be dismissed. Science is based on improvements and increased knowledge. That's how science works. This article may be exaggerating the importance and ignoring that there have been artificial heart transplants in the past, vut this is still a step in the right direction. I don't think we should be cheering before it becomes a viable option to transplants, but I'm happy to see we're slowly improving.

 

[Psychobabble]

Nice, but 5 years seems a short amount of time for a viable heart transplant alternative. I mean invasive surgery like that would require maintenance every few years which isn't conductive to recovery I would think.

I pretty much agree, but then again five extra if somewhat annoying years is far better than dead. Plus I'll also throw in the annoying old gaming chestnut of "It's still in beta".

 

[Yuuki]

That machine is only going to get smaller, lighter and cost less as time goes on. At this rate we should have heart-machines beating within quite a few people within the decade.

 

[DeaDRabbiT]

Now to really get 3D printing up and going so these things are cheap and available to the masses.

Not possible with current design it still needs some organic tissue to function.

Also 5 years is a bit short for shelf life of a heart, even more so at 200k a pop.

I am very interested though that this could be the first true test of the human body rejecting or accepting true artificial replacement. And whether we will have/need to create a real world equivalent of neuropozyne or not.

I imagine the artificial heart could accommodate mechanical valves as well. The article didn't elaborate as to why the device incorporated organic tissue (I'd assume the patient might have had a contraindication for extended Warfarin therapy)

I don't see the point in having a device with so many moving parts like this anyway. Ever since doctors had successfully installed a turbine based device in a patient who lived a few months until electing to die.

Cool nonetheless.

 

[DeaDRabbiT]

how terrible. The patient was cut open and given a heart he can only hope to live 5 more years by. What then, are they gonna rip him open again? Even if I were elderly I still would not want an organ with an expiration date. They said themselves that 1 month = success, talk about lowering the bar! I would not believe they had my best interest sincerely.

Have you ever had a vaccination? Taken antibiotics?

Medical science is 100% in your best interest sir.

Put yourself in this patients shoes. You are ineligible to receive a donor organ, you are terminal, and your entire life has an expiration date. Most rational human beings would line up (if able) to get a device that will extend their life for any meaningful amount of time. Also in this case, yes I assume by the time the device is going to wear out, they will "rip him open" (of course it's more like "scalpel and saw" him open) and replace the heart with a newer version.

 

[1066]

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

Actually, it's an accurate statement, but it's got heavy media spin. It's like a headline a month ago (I live in Canada) that read as though Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was arrested on drug charges, but was actually a Florida mayor arrested and the arresting officer said something like 'this isn't Toronto.'

The line was: performed the first ever transplant of French pharmaceutical company Carmat's artificial heart to a human patient...

And so it is their first heart, so it's technically correct, etc.

Bugs me too, but it really is just spin.

 

[BakaSmurf]

Jesus turned water into wine? ***** please, scientists can create working hearts with some spare printer parts and last night's leftover beef.

SCIENCE, BITCHES. We be living in the future, and she be getting more awe-inspiring every day.

 

[J Tyran]

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

As they are saying "transplanted" I would speculate that they mean this one is the first internal one, usually artificial hearts are either large machines or the size of a travel case and the patient has to carry around a box with pumps in etc. Not sure though I guess its time actually do some research about it.

 

[mysecondlife]

Uh what??

The first artificial heart implanted was by Robert Jarvik.

I know this pretty well because I know a girl named after him... Jarvik.

 

[Rufus Shinra]

Actually, it's an accurate statement, but it's got heavy media spin. It's like a headline a month ago (I live in Canada) that read as though Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was arrested on drug charges, but was actually a Florida mayor arrested and the arresting officer said something like 'this isn't Toronto.'

The line was: performed the first ever transplant of French pharmaceutical company Carmat's artificial heart to a human patient...

And so it is their first heart, so it's technically correct, etc.

Bugs me too, but it really is just spin.

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

Uh what??

The first artificial heart implanted was by Robert Jarvik.

I know this pretty well because I know a girl named after him... Jarvik.

From what I'm finding out on Wiki, it seems that this Jarvik heart required you to be connected to a dishwasher-sized machine and that these various artificial hearts were more like things to allow you to survive until an actual transplant rather than a heart you could live with at home, work, etc.

Hell, even one of the most modern stuff, that actually allowed the patient to leave the hospital with his artificial heart... needed him to carry a backpack-sized powerplant on him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14363731

So, yeah, if it allows you to go on with your life without external equipment, this is a colossal breakthrough and the first real, actual, artificial heart.

 

[RA92]

Even if I were elderly I still would not want an organ with an expiration date.

Sorry to break it to you, but all your organs have an expiration date.

Please don't spiral down into an existential crisis.

 

[Dimitriov]

First Artificial Heart Implanted in Human Paitent

Human Paitent, really? I mean typos are easy to make, but no one has commented on this or corrected it yet?

It was glaring at me as soon as I saw the article title.

 

[Me55enger]

So where does the patient stand on feeling heartburn?

 

[Dark Knifer]

This reminds me of that not so great movie repo man which would come take their artificial organs back if you couldn't pay.

But in all seriousness I'm glad we saved a live with cybernetics. That shit is awesome.

 

[Blaze the Dragon]

I was unaware that this hadn't been done before. I guess it's just particularly interesting this time or something.

Also, to the people saying that 5 years isn't a good amount of time for a new organ to function. It's obviously longer than the amount of time the current model was going to last. And you'd obviously only get this if there were no alternatives like proper donors and whatnot. Even a mere month would at least be long enough to set your affairs in order, let alone a full 5 extra years. And that's even enough time for a better model to get made. Hell, this could probably be used as a means of keeping a patient alive until a proper donor could be found, and then maybe return for future use. Although that does sound disgusting, I'd imagine it could be reused.

 

[asinann]

Wikipedia: "the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982."

So, um, is this the first FRENCH artificial heart or did this article take 31 years to get posted?

Serious, just a little research guys.

As they are saying "transplanted" I would speculate that they mean this one is the first internal one, usually artificial hearts are either large machines or the size of a travel case and the patient has to carry around a box with pumps in etc. Not sure though I guess its time actually do some research about it.

The heart itself is purely internal, even from 1982. The oldest ones needed massive machines to keep them going and didn't last long. The ones made more recently have been internal if a little large, but they haven't needed massive support machines in 20 years.

 

[FalloutJack]

One question springs to mind that I'm sure has occurred to at least some of you: Was it Patrick Stewart?