AbioCor, the Jarvik 7, and...any others?

[Ranchoth]

Pardon my posting, but I was wondering…as the post title says, were there any other models of artificial hearts tested in humans besides the old Jarvik 7 and the new AbioCor hearts? I seem to remember hearing about a couple over te years, but I could very easily be wrong.

Well, thanks for your time,
Ranchoth

[Coriolanus]

*Originally posted by Ranchoth *
**Pardon my posting
**

That’s what I’ll be saying once a real MD surgeon/research scientist shows up.

The Jarvik-7 was first used during the early-1980s. However, earlier artificial hearts date back to the mid-1950s. In 1957, a team of scientists, led by Willem Kolff, a Dutch-born physician, tested their model in animals to identify problems. In 1969, a team led by Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute successfully kept a human patient alive for more than sixty hours with their model. During the years that followed, the notion of a permanent, rather than temporary, implantation began to take hold.

http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/fake.html

(I was reluctant to even use that quote because of the ‘fake.html’ file name. Yet the page seems legit - at least as much as snopes.com would be)
(Also I love the beating heart GIF at the bottom of afore-mentioned page, and the inviting Back to Invasive Procedures link)

This is from HowStuffWorks.com and is mostly about the AbioCor

So clearly, the move has steered back to ‘quasi-temporary’ hearts that buy time till a replacement donated heart can be attained.

I could not find much more information. My WAG is that current artificial heart research is a) lucrative and thus b) secretive and likely c) controversial (PETA comes to mind)

[Flymaster]

My bet is that the fake.html referred to “fake hearts”.