Working together with the European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS), a team of French researchers has succeeded in creating an artificial heart which is almost close to the physiological function of the human heart. Dr. Alain Carpentier, a cardiac surgeon and head of the development of artificial heart is saying that the artificial heart with two ventricles and two atria may already be in pairs in humans about three years.
"This tool is designed to permanently replace the human heart has been damaged," explained Dr. Peter Weissberg, chairman of the British Heart Foundation. The next challenge is how long tools lasted beats 60-100 times per minute just like the human heart? because it beats 60-100 times per minute is an absolute requirement to support life.
The developers say that this artificial heart device that they have approached the design of the original heart of man. This is because in addition to having two pumps which replace the function of two ventricles, which they design tool is also equipped with sensors that can control the activity of the body in accordance with the pulse frequency of physical activity. Because the normal human heart will beat faster if there was an increase in physical activity.
In addition, most of the tool is made from bio-tech material which has basic animal tissues to avoid immune reactions and blood clotting.
New developments in the medical world this is good news for the nearly 20,000 people each year around the world who need a heart transplant, since only a quarter of it from those who received a heart transplant from a donor.
