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First Man to Live with a Titanium Heart
« on: March 12, 2025, 08:15:21 PM »
Is alive today after using it for over 3 months until his transplant.

https://people.com/man-lives-for-record-105-days-with-metal-heart-11695885

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Re: First Man to Live with a Titanium Heart
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2025, 08:36:38 PM »
It will never be as metal as the nuclear-powered (Pu-238) pacemakers that some patients had implanted in the '60s-'70s.

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Re: First Man to Live with a Titanium Heart
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2025, 01:31:05 AM »


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Re: First Man to Live with a Titanium Heart
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2025, 02:42:15 AM »
Apparently he kept playing dead on the emergency ward. The doctors dismissed it as light-hearted banter.

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Re: First Man to Live with a Titanium Heart
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2025, 04:37:47 AM »
Would love to co-write a love ballad with Gym Rat called, “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Titanium Heart”.