Photo: Texas Heart Institute
The BiVacor TAH could change the way millions of people suffering from heart failure are treated, says author Mimi Schwarz, who began working on 2013 on a book about the 50-year quest to build the world’s first artificial heart. By the time she reached her book deadline in 2018, a team at the Texas Heart Institute led by famed Houston heart surgeon Dr. Bud Frazier was still working on an artificial heart that had genuine promise -- one patterned on a turbine's spinning action rather than the heart’s pumping action. Now, for the first time ever, the experimental BiVacor heart kept a local man alive before he got the heart transplant that keeps him alive today.
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