Very few people live longer than 100 years, and the artificial heart will not change that.

The second form is the agreement to receive an artificial heart.

There was a time, back in the 1980s, when artificial hearts were big news.

That's why there's an artificial heart in my chest today.

Doctors can set the artificial heart to beat a specific number of times a minute.

He felt it in the skip of his artificial heart.

The artificial heart is one very visible example of that goal.

Researchers say it was an important step toward the development of a totally artificial heart.

We don't know what effect it will have on your artificial heart.

The record represents the survival of both the person and the artificial heart.

The implant was complicated further because doctors had to replace the first mechanical heart with a smaller model.

Behind them beat the mechanical heart of a gigantic generator.

Or can the mechanical heart only prolong a person's dying process?

All five patients who received the most commonly used mechanical heart, the Jarvik 7, have died within two years.

Extra reserves of blood were needed and held in the mechanical heart's chambers, for a man's own heart was not equal to the task.

"I heard you have a mechanical heart yourself."

You are, of course, referring to the incident when your mechanical heart failed you.

In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

The very air hummed, throbbed like the giant mechanical heart of the city that it actually was.

The longest survivor lived 512 days, when the mechanical heart failed.