FB Top Comments | Yea now the poor can have new hearts!!! Wait... oh. | but the heart is 3 times larger than a normal heart so only 65% of all patients (85% of men)can fit it in their chests. | So, when can I apply to be a repo man? | Science fucking rocks! | The man is still waiting for a donor heart as this is not a permanent solution | It works, it will give him an extra 5 year until they find a proper donor. | I was going to donate my kidney but I feel science is advancing so much I dont even need too.. | when a heart made from bioprinting? | Even
if the number of patients which can get such a heart is (until now)
limited, it s still fascinating and amazing how medicine evolves. | That's awesome but that has to.suck to always have to rely on a battery | Science is not a sin. Ignorance and not advancing our civilization is a sin! | I
hate to be cynical ... but why is this going into the chest of a 75
year old man ? Are you telling me that there is no one younger who could
benefit from this ? And NO I am not some "young kid" who thinks that
all "old people" are out of touch I am 63 and would prefer that a device
such as this go into a younger person. | It weighs 3 times as much as a normal natural heart - the beauty and complexity of human anatomy | Smaller
ones need to be made for children. My 9-year old nephew passed away
about a month ago after receiving a total artificial heart. He is the
smallest and youngest to have one - unfortunately, it was too large and
his other organs began to shut down. | any material you use to put in the body is a "biomaterial." perhaps you mean naturally derived materials? biomimetic materials? | All that wiring could be handled eventually with nanonics. That would erase the need for any externals | Within the next year there will be an explosion of bio-fabrication courses at universities! Fantastic | this
is great, but i think it is mostly a transitional technology. the
future seems to be towards growing organs made from our own body's | Right
now the common method (though definitely not the only) is to obtain a
heart and cleanse it of all blood and tissue cells leaving just the
'scaffold' of the organ, then apply cells from the patients own body to
reattach the tissue, and then get it in there....I think that is what
constitutes "biomaterial", the blood and cells and donor organ... The
chances of rejection are super low since it is the bodies own cells, but
there is still a chance since the cleaned organ is still foreign
(though that chance is low, it is there).... Can't wait for the day we
can just create an entirely compatible heart (or other organs) with just
stem cells... You go science, get your nerd on lol | At this rate, immortality should be perfectly plausible in a few decades... for those who can afford it. | He died two weeks later from pneumonia, I think. Amazing step in science though. | That
is purely mechanical if I remember correctly. Made of plastics and
metals. This says from bio materials. I've seen articles referring to
attempts to create a biological replacement. | The
patient in this story only had the procedure performed two weeks ago -
if he died today I doubt we'd know about it quite yet.
I
think you're thinking of the guy a couple years ago who had the
Continuous Flow heart transplant? He didn't have a heart beat because
the device used turbines to pump his blood continuously instead of
rhythmically. | well,
that's fooking wonderful - but WHEN will humanity wake up to the fact
that this planet is way overpopulated, and cannot continue to sustain
ever-increasing numbers of people? | Violet
Station artificial hearts can't be rejected by the body because it
contains no cells at all (therefore no foreign ones either)-nothing for
the immune system to react with, unless it was an allergen | ow
does the heart respond to exertion. So if he walked up a flight of
stairs for example. He would use more oxygen and a normal heart would
respond to that by pumping faster....
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