(Louisville, KY) - Surgeons at UofL Health's Jewish Hospital are making history. They performed the first total artificial heart implant on a woman last week.
The Aeson device is meant to be a bridge while patients wait for a heart transplant.
The surgeons say size limitations can make it hard to implant artificial hearts in women, but the Aeson artificial heart is compact enough to fit into their smaller chest cavities.
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