Sunday 5 April 2015

France's second artificial heart recipient says 'recovered'

An employee of French firm Carmat inspects an artificial heart manufactured by the company in Velizy, a suburb of Paris, on September 24, 2009 A man who in August became the second person in France to receive a much-hyped new-generation artificial heart said in his first interview Sunday he had "recovered", to the point of going on bike rides. The 69-year-old man, who wishes to remain anonymous, was terminally ill with a heart condition when he received the transplant exactly eight months ago in the western city of Nantes. The transplant is part of a key trial for a much talked-about artificial heart created by French firm Carmat, and the first recipient -- 76-year-old Claude Dany -- died in March last year, 10 weeks after receiving the experimental device. The artificial heart uses soft "biomaterials" intended to lessen the risk of blood clots and rejection by the immune system.




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