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Man Receives Self Contained Artificial Heart

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UCLA Medical Center has announced that an elderly man received the world´s fourth implantation of a self-contained artificial heart.

The patient is resting comfortably after yesterday´s eleven-hour procedure to implant the Abio-Cor replacement heart.

A statement from the UC Health Sciences department describes the man as being in his 70s. His name is not being released.

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