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Young Boy Becomes The First Human to Live With a Permanent 'Robot Heart"

TheShadowLord07 · 2010-10-04 07:10:29

Until now, all other artificial heart transplants were just temporary relief. A 15 year old boy from Italy became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart, due to the Duchenne syndrome which was wasting his muscles away. It was this syndrome which meant he couldn't receive a heart transplant, causing doctors in Rome to insert the 4cm-long electrically-activated hydraulic pump 'heart' in his left ventricle. A plug behind his left ear and battery attached to his belt powers the heart, which will gift him another 20 - 25 years of life that he wouldn't have had without this operation. If you compare the unnamed boy's 90g heart with the first-ever artificial heart from 1969, you can see just how far the medical world has progressed in those 41 years. The photo above shows the first-ever artificial heart, which was placed inside a man's heart for 64 hours, while he waited for a donor heart.source: gizmodo

lonewolf604

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#51 lonewolf604

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Let's hope he can pay it off or else they will be forced to repossess it. Ghost_702

Repo Men was the crappiest movie I've seen.

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#52 DarkerGemini

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Very interesting. Now we can add another to the list of cybernetics along with the robotic arms and legs that they are making now adays.

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#53 LIONHEART-_-

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[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]Pics?TheShadowLord07

its on top of the page?

Pics of that "Robot Heart" and not the first-ever artificial heart :?

14 years ago

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#54 Head_of_games

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I want to see the new one! Anyways, will these work for anyone? Is there no longer any need whatsoever for donor hearts?

14 years ago

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#55 Juggernaut140

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[QUOTE="thriteenthmonke"]And he will never be able to love. :(XxxExtremeNJBXx

The heart does that,really ? I thought it was the mind which allowed us to have "feelings" .My bad.

They're just joking god damn. :roll:

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#56 JohnBean42

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As a heart patient (Congenital Heart Disease), I find this amazing. I remember when I had my surgeries 17 years ago as a baby, they couldn't even do heart transplants, they has about a 0-2% success rate. Medical science and technology has come so far that the can extend a boy's life 20-25 years without a human heart.

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#57 lizzie1238

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[QUOTE="Lonelynight"]That's amazing.Lost-Memory

Not as amazing as your gif...... But seriously, that is pretty insane. If I were the kid, I wouldn't have words to express my feelings. lol

He wouldn't even have feelings if he has no real heart. Just kidding, I've been playing too much Kingdom Hearts. But for any other KH fans out there... It's the worlds first Nobody!!! I'm really happy for the guy, and how technology can now allow him to live so much longer.

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