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The Total Artificial Heart is one of the many wonders of modern medicine. Elliot Majerczyk has this report on a medical team pioneering a new technology in heart implantation.
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Elliot Majerczyk: This is Dr. Vigneshwar Kasirajan chairman of cardiac surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Kasirajan: We have nationally perhaps 50,000 to 60,000 patients a year who would benefit from a heart transplant. We are able to do only 2,000 to 2,500 heart transplants.
Elliot Majerczyk: While patients wait for a donor human heart, many of them need an artificial heart to keep them alive. Dr. Kasirajan and his team performed the first total artificial heart transplant on the East Coast.
Dr. Kasirajan: Nationally, I believe currently we are the largest implanting center in the United States. But there are a number of centers that are starting to train and get proficient at it.
Elliot Majerczyk: Until recently patients with an artificial heart had to be tethered to a 350-pound machine. Dr. Kasirajan and his team are part a national study on a new portable...
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