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Scientists have been able to develop a device that replaces the heart
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
European specialists have managed to develop a new artificial heart. In their work on the artificial organ, scientists have adapted technologies that are usually used in various space devices, telecommunications satellites that orbit the earth.
Work in the field of developing an artificial device that would fully replace a diseased heart was carried out for 15 years, with a variety of centers and institutes participating in the development. The new artificial heart organ will undergo clinical trials in France and if the tests are successful, the artificial heart will go into mass production.
The appearance of a similar implant has been expected for a long time by a large number of people. Various groups of specialists around the world are working on the development of a device capable of fully replacing the human heart organ, some of the scientists' developments may make a real sensational breakthrough in the field of transplantology.
More than one hundred million people in the world suffer from severe heart diseases. Sometimes the patient's condition approaches critical so much that an urgent organ transplant is required. Unfortunately, the shortage of donor organs allows such an operation to be performed on everyone who needs it. Therefore, many specialists consider an artificial heart organ to be extremely important in the conditions of modern medicine.
Alain Carpentier, professor, a famous cardiac surgeon became the author of the development of a new organ. Due to the fact that the professor received the opportunity to access various technologies that are used in space developments, he was able to create a device that can perform the functions of the human heart and be as reliable and durable as possible.
Professor Carpentier believes that the new artificial device combines the latest developments in biology, medicine, electronics, and uses the most modern materials. The artificial heart is 50% organic and biological materials, the remaining half are components used in the production of spacecraft, only much smaller in size.
As one of the developers who took part in the creation of the artificial organ explained, there are many similarities between space and the human body. Both space and the human body are complex and inaccessible systems. In space, mistakes are not allowed, it is impossible to simply and easily repair a broken part. The same principle applies to humans. A group of specialists needed to create a device that could work in the difficult conditions of the vascular system, capable of opening and closing a valve about 35 million times a year and working without failures for five years (at least) from the moment of transplantation into the human body.
The specialists were required to do the almost impossible - to develop a device that could replace the most important human organ and be as reliable as possible. The creation of such an organ became possible due to the enormous work on design, forecasts and further practical application of high-tech electronic components, which until then had only been used in the construction of satellites.
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