Clean rooms, staff dressed like surgeons, caps on their heads, shoe protectors on their feet, working in religious silence… In this building, in the activity zone of Bois d’Arcy (Yvelines), we fight for artificial hearts. In its fifteen years of existence, the Carmat startup has completed 50 implantations of this little gem of technology in patients awaiting transplantation in eight countries. Fourteen of them subsequently underwent transplantation.
The rest after this announcement
Francesco, a 46-year-old Italian suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, is one of the latest patients to benefit from this treatment. The operation took place in Milan. In the coming months, ten more people will benefit from the Aeson heart.
Source: Le Parisien
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