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I read an article that discussed how a calf, named Meeko, had gotten a heart transplant in a new invention, known as the Heartmate II. The heart was removed, still beating, and was placed into a plastic dish, where it was then stored. The Heartmate II was inserted, and the calf was acting exactly the same, still swatting away flies with his tail, and was walking around regularly. #|Heart transplants are very rare, due to the fact that not many people are dead with hearts in rather good conditions. These hearts are only really available from suicides, #|vehicle accidents, and extreme injuries of relatively young people. About 2,000 hearts are available per year for transplants, but many, many more people are in need of heart transplants, so this causes a problem. In addition, issues with heart transplants include tissue rejection, and that cars and motor vehicles are getting safer, and laws are also offering more protection to people. The most obvious solution was to create a replica of the heart and insert it into the human body and hopefully it would work, but other methods include a pump that is placed in the ventricles to help the blood flow through the heart and into the body. The name of a solution was the Jarvik 7, which is when they insert a fake heart, and attach you to a loud machine for the rest of your life. It allows for a very poor quality of life, and so the first patient to be put on it for over 100 days asked to kill himself multiple times. The Heartrate II, runs on a battery and temporarily can be put in place of the heart. It is a good bridge between the waiting list and the actual transplant of the heart, and in some cases, actually reversed the effects of heart disease, so that when some people were taken off of it, they didn't need the transplants at all. The Heartrate II is very easy to change the battery and gain access to, such as the lady with the no beating heart, where she showed her cousin how to remove it and change it, and she died temporarily for about 10 seconds until the battery was placed back in. The Heartrate II was a great idea because the silicon tubes don't really wear away, and they are blood friendly. Lastly, they also mentioned how they were on the verge of solving the artificial heart puzzle for good, all they have to do is to get rid of the #|pulse.

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