Cook surviving on artificial heart saved with donor heart in first-ever UCSF transplant

"I was scared to death because I didn't have a heart for months." A man surviving without a real heart got a lucky break -- ...
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First UCSF Health Patient to Move from Total Artificial Heart to Transplant

In a first, UCSF implanted a patient, who was in heart failure, with an artificial heart, who then he received a heart ...
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Researchers Demonstrate Self-Powered Cardiac Pacemaker

A research team headed by Keon Jae Lee, PhD, of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Boyoung Joung, MD, of the ...
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How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...
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The Leadless Pacemaker: Advancing cardiac pacing technology at St. Mark’s Hospital

Estimates suggest that around three million Americans are living with cardiac pacemakers, according to the American Heart Association. Now, thanks to MountainStar Healthcare, a new kind of pacemaker – ...