The French presented the world's first biomechanical heart

French scientists from Carmat presented their new creation: the world's first biomechanical heart. This human heart is a cyborg created with the help of both synthetic and biological materials.

The new "French heart" is radically different from its older brethren. It has software and special sensors that completely mimic the work of a real human body. If you believe the developers, the heart-cyborg can help millions of people who need a transplant.

It is known that getting a donor heart is very difficult. Patients are idle huge queues to achieve surgery. Not all of them survive until they receive a donor organ. At the moment, only one heart is allowed in the West, the product of the American company SynCardia Systems. This is quite a heavy technique( 6. 1 kg).In addition, it needs additional devices, placed in a separate bag-container. Not everyone is allowed to plant this equipment. Only in rare and completely hopeless cases doctors are allowed to use it. Thousands of patients with heart failure( in America alone, more than 5 million) have to wait for the donor body.

Attempts to replace the human heart with a full-fledged robot began decades ago. In fact, the heart is just a pump that pumps blood in the body. Why has not this pump been recreated in our century? The reason lies in the phenomenal performance of the human body. It is capable of shrinking 35 million times within the human body during the year. No technical equipment can compete with our heart.

French artificial heart can not become a full-fledged replacement, but at the moment it is recognized as the most perfect device of its kind. In late May, scientists have already received permission to implant it, the operations will take place in 4 clinics in Europe and in the first in the Middle East. If everything goes well, in the near future the Karmat device will disperse around the world.