Australian with titanium heart lives 105 days before donor implant

An Australian man lived for 105 days with a titanium artificial heart that uses magnetic levitation technology before receiving a donated human heart, the longest period for a patient with the device implanted, an Australian research group has said.The device invented by Daniel Timms, founder and chief technology officer of U.S.-Australian medical company BiVACOR, uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood to the body and lungs, employing technology used in maglev trains such as Japan's Linear Chuo Shinkansen line under construction to link Tokyo and Nagoya.BiVACOR worked with intern…READ FULL ARTICLE