Doctors at the Rabin Medical Center – Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva transplanted a totally artificial heart into a 63-year-old man suffering from severe cardiac insufficiency and organ failure. Israeli surgeons normally use artificial hearts as a bridge to a patient’s existing heart, however in this case the patient’s own heart would have been unable to survive the operation.
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