Auckland University scientists have made a breakthrough that could save the lives of thousands of heart patients worldwide and eventually offer an alternative to heart transplants.
Scientists from the university’s Bioengineering Institute, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Physiology have developed the technology to power a wireless heart pump.
Heart pumps keep sufferers of congenital heart failure alive as they await a donor heart.
But heart pump wires, which go through a patient’s stomach and chest, are restrictive, prone to breakage and can cause serious infections in about 40 per cent of patients, sometimes causing complications leading …
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