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Unexpected heart muscle growth found in patients with artificial hearts

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of MedicineTucson's Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.

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Can the heart heal itself? New study says it can

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.

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Realheart TAH Receives Humanitarian Use Device Designation from FDA

DAIC

29, 2025 Scandinavian Real Heart AB (recently aannouncedthat its total artificial heart, Realheart TAH, has been granted Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation by the U.S. RealheartTAH is a total artificial heart that mimics the structure and physiological function of the human heart.

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Heart muscle can regenerate in some patients, study suggests

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

Some heart failure patients with artificial hearts have been able to regenerate heart muscle, potentially paving the way for future heart failure treatment options, according to a study published Nov. 21 in Circulation.

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Henry Ford Health Heart Failure Patient First in Michigan to Receive Breakthrough Device

DAIC

Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease team delivered its first in Michigan FDA-approved VOQUE Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement System to a heart failure patient on February 13, 2024 at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Other symptoms include swelling in the abdomen, legs or neck veins.

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What are Artificial Heart Valves ?

Know Your Heart

Artificial Heart Valves Who needs artificial heart valves? The 4 heart valves work continuously to keep blood flowing to the lungs and to the body. Sometimes, disease may damage the heart valves so that they function poorly or stop working completely. When damaged valves can no longer [.]

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Uric acid in advanced heart failure: relation to central haemodynamics and outcome

Open Heart

Objective The role of hyperuricaemia as a prognostic maker has been established in chronic heart failure (HF) but limited information on the association between plasma uric acid (UA) levels and central haemodynamic measurements is available.