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2024 28 Jun

  Ken Miller of Ferndale, Michigan, has become the first person to undergo a beating heart transplant and one of only a few in the U.S. to have this surgery.   In this groundbreaking procedure, the transplant team at Henry Ford Hospital, led by cardiac and transplant surgeon Dr Kyle Miletic, successfully implanted Miller’s new heart while...Read more

2014 10 Mar

The hospital, which performed the transplant in December, has announced that the first patient fitted with an artificial heart made by the French company Carmat has died. 75 days following the surgery at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, the patient, a 76-year-old man, has passed away. The cause of his death is currently unconfirmed....Read more