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?Biomaterial? artifical heart ready by 2011

Agence France-Presse  Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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A fully implantable artificial heart designed to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donors will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, the French professor behind the prototype said yesterday. Leading heart transplant specialist Alain Carpentier, head of the European research team behind the project, said the prosthetic heart was ready to be manufactured and should be ready for human use ?within two and half years.? The prototype was developed in association with a team of aerospace engineers. Shaped like a real heart, with the same blood flow rhythms, the prototype uses the same technology as prosthetic heart valves already used around the world. Made from chemically treated animal tissues, these ?biomaterials? are designed to avoid rejection by the patient?s immune system or blood clotting, a recurrent problem with existing artificial hearts, Carpentier said.

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