Recipient of world's first permanent artificial heart dies

London - A British man who became the first in the world to be fitted with a permanent artificial heart has died at the age of 68, his friends reported Monday. Peter Houghton, from Birmingham, central Britain, was fitted with the battery-powered Jarvik 2000 heart at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, in June 2000. His death from multiple organ failure after more than seven years on November 25 was confirmed Monday by his friend and neighbour, John Lloyd. Before the operation he had been given only weeks to live as his own heart was working at 10 per cent of normal capacity. The device, fitted in a 14-hour operation, replaced previous versions which were too large to be attached to a patient for longer than a few months. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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Get Well SoonDec 31st, 2007 - 11:42:54

Let us hope that stem (or skin) cells will cause some new, scientific breakthroughs. A partly bionic and stem produced heart could be in the future.

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