Carmat artificial heart patient in good condition: hospital

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Carmat artificial heart patient in good condition: hospital

By Natalie Huet PARIS (Reuters) - French artificial heart maker Carmat's first patient is in a "very satisfactory condition" 12 days after being fitted with the device, the hospital treating him said on Monday. The 75-year-old Frenchman is eating normally and spent three hours sitting in a chair in the company of his family on Sunday, the team caring for him at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris said. "The artificial heart is functioning normally, automatically catering to the body's needs without any manual adjustment necessary," surgeons Alain Carpentier and Christian Latremouille said in a statement issued by the hospital. The people selected suffer from terminal heart failure - when the sick heart can no longer pump enough blood to sustain the body - and would otherwise have only a few days or weeks to live.

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