The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.

An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

The Australian man was the sixth person to to receive the device called BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH), but the first to live with for more than a month.

BiVACOR has been invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms. An Australian man has made history by becoming the first person in the world to survive for over 100 days with an artificial heart ...

That’s where total artificial hearts come in, such as the titanium heart designed by medical device company BiVACOR. Implanted into a human for the first time back in July 2024, the heart works ...

The patient, who was in his 40s, volunteered to undergo a 6-hour surgery to receive a BiVACOR titanium heart at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney in November. The device uses a magnetically ...

With fewer moving parts than other artificial hearts that typically involve flexing chambers or pumping diaphragms, BiVacor’s titanium heart is expected to last 10 years or more, much longer ...

Developed by Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms, the titanium heart device is being used as a stopgap until patients can undergo transplant surgery with a donor heart. BiVACOR A man in ...