This is the Man With the World's First Portable Heart

ARIZONA (Reuters) - Charles Okeke, the 43-year-old Phoenix, Arizona, United States, never thought I'd be the first to hold a "man of high artificial heart".

Already bears the title of the last two years, he got after his body rejected a transplanted heart to her existence, since the age of 30 years. Since then, life Okeke This Man With Artificial Heart's First Portable Duniabergantung the engine weighing 181 kg.

For about two years, he had lived in Mayo Clinic Hospital Phoenix, because it must always be close to the engine size of a washing machine, which plays supplying blood to the entire body.

Fortunately, medical device company SynCardia artificial heart successfully created the world's smallest service, the Total Artificial Heart. Government agencies in food and medicines recently approved the use of these tools, and Okeke became the first to use a portable device, it can be taken anywhere, weighing about 6 pounds.

Artificial heart size can be much smaller than previous devices because it uses sensors are also shrinking.

"The sensors are used to the size of a can of soup, it is as large as a quarter. This allows us to reduce the size of the entire console, "said Steven Langford of SynCardia.

Portable Artificial Heart SynCardia was sold for U.S. $ 125,000 to U.S. $ 18,000 cost of treatment per year. Powered by a battery, and features four valves, this tool replaces the role of the ventricles of the heart to pump blood to various organs such as the liver, or kidneys.

Thanks to the total artificial heart, Okeke now able to leave the hospital and go home to a house that has been left in his two years. He was able to move more freely, because artificial heart he could now tenteng everywhere in his backpack.

"Now I am a happy man, as you see today. I could sleep in my own bed after two years of sleeping in the hospital, "." Said Okeke.

Okeke indeed still have to train hard to maintain her fitness, while still waiting for the donor heart to be transplanted back into his body. But, as long as he has not found the right heart, doctors allow it to use a portable artificial heart, to indefinite.