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Article: FDA Advisors to Weigh Artificial Heart
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- March 17, 2004
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LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
AP Online
03-17-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
A temporary artificial heart that promises to help keep certain patients alive long enough to receive a heart transplant must pass a key hurdle, as government advisers debate whether the device works well enough to sell.
The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart is essentially the same device that made headlines 22 years ago when Barney Clark became the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, then called the Jarvik-7. He lived 112 days.
What has changed is how doctors hope to use the device. It's not supposed to be the kind of permanent replacement attempted with Clark so long ago.
"The term 'artificial heart' ...