Titanium heart makes Time's 'Best Inventions' list

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart is included on the "The Best Inventions of 2024" list published Oct. 30 in Time

The heart has been used in three successful "bridge-to-heart transplant" patients with severe heart failure who are waiting for a donor heart.

Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix became the third U.S. hospital to perform a BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation as part of the FDA's early feasibility study.

The first implantation was performed at Houston-based Texas Heart Institute in July and the second was performed in August at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital. 

The device is made of titanium and uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood, replacing both heart ventricles, according to an Oct. 11 news release from Phoenix-based Banner Health.

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