46-Year-Old Man Receives First Temporary Total Artificial Heart in Northeast U.S.
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaA 46-year-old former fitness instructor, suffering from biventricular end-stage heart failure and in irreversible cardiogenic shock, has become the first to receive a new temporary Total Artificial Heart in the Northeast U.S. by cardiac surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.