But VentrAssist's developers believe this device could provide a permanent alternative to heart transplant.
In 1984, Rose made history when he performed the first successful pediatric heart transplant.
As a result, heart transplant recipients must warm up thoroughly to get their heart pumping properly.
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"I'm so proud of these people, it's incredible, " heart transplant doctor Hector Ventura says of his colleagues.
At the hospital's heart transplant center, five patients have been cared for and will probably stay put.
Surgeons at the hospital carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant for a baby in 1987.
She received a heart transplant 14 years ago and it was the first time she has attended.
But as he turned 15 his condition deteriorated and a heart transplant operation was carried out last month.
The only option for the worst cases was a heart transplant, and there was a shortage of hearts.
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The UK's first baby heart transplant survivor has celebrated a quarter of a century since her historic operation.
In 1968, LeMole served on the team that carried out the first successful heart transplant in the United States.
Indeed, I know a family whose newborn daughter had a defective heart and had to have a heart transplant.
In extreme cases, a heart transplant is performed to treat severe heart failure.
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Lillehei trained dozens of heart surgeons, including South African Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
The 72-year-old gives little to no insight about his heart transplant last year or his decision to support same-sex marriage.
Lillehei trained dozens of heart surgeons, including Christiaan Barnard, the South African who in 1967 performed the first successful heart transplant.
But being a heart transplant patient comes with the extra challenge of getting the organ to beat at an acceptable rate.
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Just months after his heart transplant a man approached him at a check-up and asked him to take part in the games.
When medications and surgeries and procedures like angioplasty no longer work, the only other course of action has been a heart transplant.
It was then that the possibility of a heart transplant became real, thanks to a large donation from one of those people.
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Hannah's case made the headlines when Herefordshire Primary Care Trust took legal advice following her decision not to have a heart transplant.
One patient requiring a heart transplant could wipe away any savings overnight.
Suffering visibly from a coronary ailment, he withdraws cash from a vault in a Swiss bank to pay for a black-market heart transplant.
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant operation in Cape Town on Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days.
This includes people with conditions such as an artificial heart valve, past history of endocarditis or a heart transplant with abnormal heart valve function.
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In 1969, Dr. Philip Blaiberg died in South Africa, 19 months and 15 days after receiving a heart transplant, a survival record at the time.
With the help of four other hospitals in Australia, the researchers plan to test the device in 30 heart failure patients awaiting a heart transplant.
The next step for such patients is often a heart transplant.
Other private insurers, including Bupa, send patients to the Heart Hospital, which replaced the National Heart Hospital - the scene of the UK's first heart transplant.
Felled by a massive heart attack in 1986, he was an early heart transplant recipient who managed to live another five years with his new heart.
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