That being said, the titanium heart is only meant to keep a patient alive while they wait for a heart transplant, which has always been the goal of fully mechanical heart development at this stage ...

The titanium artificial heart works very differently from a real heart. A natural heart beats by squeezing and relaxing to pump blood, but this artificial heart does not beat at all.

A new life-saving titanium device called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) recently kept a patient alive for more than 100 days while awaiting a donor heart.

Its recipient was a 57-year-old man with end-stage heart failure. The titanium heart has impressive technology, but the first one dates back decades ago.

The Total Artificial Heart, made of titanium – credit BiVACOR In a highly-anticipated world-first, the Texas Heart Institute has successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart that uses the ...