For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney implanted the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart in a critically ill patient.

In a world-first, an Australian man has survived for 100 days with an artificial heart while waiting for a transplant donor.

The patient, who declined to be identified, was experiencing severe heart failure. He underwent a six-hour procedure for the implant of an artificial heart

An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with a totally artificial implanted heart

The BiVACOR total artificial heart, designed by Queensland-born Dr. Daniel Timms, is the world's first implantable rotary blood pump made as a full substitute for a human heart. It employs magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart.

In a first, an Australian man has become the first in the world to live with a durable total artificial heart implant -- m

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart. The patient, a man from New South Wales in his 40s,