Monash University-Led Artificial Heart Frontiers Program’s Durable Artificial Heart Implant Becomes Success

Study in Australia: Monash University has announced that Australia’s first implant of a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has been a clinical success and the patient became the first one to be discharged from the hospital.

Monash University-led Artificial Heart Frontiers Program planned the series of procedures for Australia’s first implant of a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. The implant has been announced as an unmitigated clinical success. The patient became the first one to be discharged from hospital after this implant.

Monash University announced that this surgery took place in November last year at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. It was conducted by the renowned St Vincent’s cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon, Dr Paul Jansz. The patient was a man in his forties from NSW. After the implantation, he was kept in the ICU for a few weeks, followed by observation in the ward, and then he was discharged from the hospital in February 2025.

Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund provided the $50 million grant for this surgery.

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Dr Daniel Timms, the Queensland-born inventor of the world’s first durable total artificial heart and BiVACOR’s founder and Chief Technical Officer said, “Being able to bring Australia along this journey and be part of the first clinical trials is immensely important to me and something that I set out to do from the very beginning. It is incredibly rewarding to see our device deliver extended support to the first Australian patient. The unique design and features of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart translate into an unmatched safety profile, and it’s exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition. The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart. Their bravery will pave the way for countless more patients to receive this lifesaving technology.”

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney’s Dr Paul Jansz commented, “Heart failure kills almost 5,000 Australians every year. We’ve worked towards this moment for years and we’re enormously proud to have been the first team in Australia to carry out this procedure. As Australia’s leading heart and lung transplant centre, St Vincent’s was the natural first choice as the venue for the first total artificial heart implant. St Vincent’s was the location for Australia’s first heart transplant in 1968, the establishment of the National Heart Transplant Program by Dr Victor Chang in 1984, and the development of ‘heart in a box’ technology in 2014. We’re all privileged to have added to that history with the first total artificial heart implant.”

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