{"id":631,"date":"2008-11-08T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/08\/carmat-artificial-heart-carpentier-porcine\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:12:42","slug":"carmat-artificial-heart-carpentier-porcine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/08\/carmat-artificial-heart-carpentier-porcine\/","title":{"rendered":"From Porcine Valves To The Carmat Artificial Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about an incredible doctor and cutting-edge technology!<\/p>\n<p>I just learned that porcine valve replacement pioneer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/05\/13\/alain-carpentier-video-interview-mitral-conclave\/\">Dr. Alain Carpentier<\/a>, is leading the development of a new, artificial heart. Carmat SAS, Carpentier&#8217;s France-based company, recently landed over $15 million in start-up funding and $50 million in government grants to develop the artificial heart using plane technology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/artificial-heart-carmat.jpg\" alt=\"Carmat Artificial Heart Invention\" width=\"262\" height=\"336\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The new device, shown above at a news conference in Paris, has only been tested in animals. Its makers hope it might one day help people survive without needing a human heart transplant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/alain-carpentier.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alain Carpentier\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You may recall that Carpentier won the 2007 Lasker Award, alongside Albert Starr, for his work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/27\/porcine-valve\/\">porcine heart valves<\/a> during the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}