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Man lives for 100 days with artificial heart; doctors hail big medical breakthrough

Man lives for 100 days with artificial heart; doctors hail big medical breakthrough
In what has come as a big medical breakthrough, an Australian man has lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant. He is the first person in the world to have left the hospital with the device that kept him alive until a heart donor became available earlier this month.