
03/06/2025
For the first time in Israel doctors successfully transplant artificial heart at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital. Doctors at Israel’s Hadassah-University Medical Center have for the first time successfully completed an artificial heart transplant on a 63-year-old patient. The landmark operation offers hope to other patients who suffer from severe heart failure.
Known as Total Artificial Heart Therapy Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart (TAH), the complex operation lasted for seven hours and was performed by a medical team that included cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, intensive care specialists, operating room nurses, heart-lung machine technicians and anesthesiologists.
The Israeli medical team prepared carefully before the complex operation by training with cardiac surgeons and other medical experts in France. The Israeli doctors also cooperated with the French medical company CARMAT. www.onlinemiddleeastreport.com