Realheart Successfully Completes Second Animal Implant of its Total Artificial Heart
Press Release, 8 July 2022 On July 6th, Scandinavian Realheart’s Total Artificial Heart (TAH) was successfully implanted in a sheep for the second time. This follows the first successful implantation of the Company’s TAH reported on June 1st. Both implantations were part of an ongoing animal study designed to assess the performance of the clinical version of Realheart® TAH before entering human clinical trials, expected to start in 2024.The procedure was performed in Belgium by Drs. Dilek Gürsoy, Joeri van Puyvelde, and Professor Bart Meyns, three experienced cardiac surgeons. Overall,