From a nine-hour surgical foray into medical history in 1967, fast-forward to 2010, when another leap has been made, this time in Israel with the implant of an artificial, titanium-alloy heart in the chest of a 74-year-old member of a kibbutz, the Hebrew term for a collective community.
Due to his age, “Ronen” (pseudonym) was not a candidate for a “live” heart transplant, the operation pioneered by famed South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who died in 2001. Instead, he has become the oldest person in Israel to receive an artificial heart, and the oldest in the world to receive the 140-gram HeartWare device, in an operation that took only five hours to complete on his birthday.
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