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Is a heart transplant better or worse than a artificial heart transplant?
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Better: Totally artificial hearts have fallen out of favor. Life expectancy has been very short, less than 2 years.
Answered 6/24/2015
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No such thing: Nobody's implanting the fully artificial heart anymore. The thing they implant is a rotary pump called an lvad (left ventricular assist device) that does the work of one heart chamber; you still have to keep your existing heart. Particularly sick people get something called bivad where one is implanted each for the left and right hearts. This is generally a situation only to get to transplant.
Answered 12/2/2012
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