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.

Australian company BiVACOR has revealed a patient implanted with its artificial heart survived for 100 days – and is still with us after receiving a donated organ. The un-named man had heart disease that meant he needed a replacement ticker.

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

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

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

An Australian man lived for over 100 days with an artificial titanium heart before successfully receiving a donor transplant, marking the longest recorded survival with the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart.