Alain Carpentier led the world's first successful artificial heart transplantation on Wednesday at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. Carpentier is a french surgeon who has been working towards developing a completely artificial heart for the last 30 years. The artificial heart is expected to be fully functional for 5 years. With over 100,000 patients in the US in need of a heart transplant, this biotechnology may very well pave the way for conventional cardiac treatment in the future.
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