French Health Minister Marisol Touraine announced on Monday, September 8, that France had successfully carried out last August the second transplant of a new-generation artificial heart. The operation was done at a university hospital in the city of Nantes and went well. The artificial heart, powered by lithium batteries, uses soft “biomaterials” intended to lessen the risk of blood clots and rejection by the body’s immune system.
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