On this date in 2001, Robert Tools became the first person to receive the AbioCor, a self-contained artificial heart, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The AbioCor was a groundbreaking medical device developed by Abiomed, designed to completely replace the human heart without external wires or tubes.
Tools, a former telephone company employee, suffered from severe heart failure and was not eligible for a heart transplant. The AbioCor device allowed him to live for 151 days post-surgery before passing away in November 2001 due to complications.
This marked a major milestone in the development of artificial organs and paved the way for future innovations in mechanical heart technology.
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