France announces second artificial heart transplant

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France announces second artificial heart transplant

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/france-announces-second-artificial-heart-transplant-180638668.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9HA6ks1dpgDnodh0nR8VBw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/000_par2792738.a3aed162812.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An employee of the French CARMAT company inspects an artificial heart" align="left" title="An employee of the French CARMAT company inspects an artificial heart" border="0" /></a>France last month carried out the second transplant of a new-generation artificial heart, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said Monday Touraine said the transplant took place on August 5 at the university hospital in the western French city of Nantes and went well. The operation came nearly six months after the first recipient, 76-year-old Claude Dany, who had been gravely ill with a heart condition, died two-and-a-half months after receiving the experimental device. &quot;This intervention confirms that heart transplant procedures are entering a new era,&quot; Touraine said in a statement.</p><br clear="all"/>

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