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Papworth in artificial heart transplant

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Surgeons at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge have managed to replace the heart of a 40-year-old man with a totally artificial heart, and he has survived.

Steven Tsui, the surgeon who led the operating team, talks about the "portable console" that drives the artificial heart.


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