An Australian man has become the first person to survive more than 100 days with a total artificial heart implant in a historic medical feat. The grou

Forty-year-old Australian, who suffered from heart failure, agreed to install a titanium implant to wait for a donor heart transplant. He is alive and well now. It is reported by the British The Guardian.

An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with a totally artificial implanted heart

The BiVACOR total artificial heart, designed by Queensland-born Dr. Daniel Timms, is the world's first implantable rotary blood pump made as a full substitute for a human heart. It employs magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart.

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.

An Australian man made history by living for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while awaiting a donor transplant, according to a March 12 report by CNN. The patient, in his 40s, underwent surgery at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney in November 2024 and reportedly became the first person worldwide to leave the hospital with the device in February.