BiVACOR
It is the first person in the world with a total implant of an artificial heart. Now he has received a transplant, and innovation has saved his life.
Invented by doctor Daniel Timms, is the first implantable rotary blood pump in the world.
Acts as a complete substitute for the human heart, and was first used by an Australian patient of 40, during more than 100 days, while the patient waited for a heart transplant.
Bivacor’s development and marketing was encouraged by the Australian government itself, which deposited almost 50 million euros in the project.
According to the innovation, it combines combines rotary centrifugal pump technologies and magnetic levitation (Maglev) to produce a bivetricular blood pump. It is therefore intended for patients suffering from biventricular heart failure in terminal phase.
This problem usually arises after others, such as heart attack or coronary, have damaged the heart, preventing it from pumping blood correctly.
The total artificial heart Bivacor inaugurates a new game for heart transplants, both in Australia and at the international level, ”he tells a cardiologist who accompanied the patient. “In the next decade, we will see the artificial heart become the alternative for patients who cannot expect a heart donor or when a heart donor is simply not available.”
Even if 100 days is a considerable time, given that this is the first 100% implantable artificial heart, A transplant of a true heart is much longer lasting – About 10 years.
In addition to this successful experience, Monash’s Australian University is developing three key devices to treat the most common forms of heart failure.
