Artificial hearts
- Created by: siobhan
- Created on: 10-05-13 17:46
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- Artificial hearts
- patients who suffer heart failure may need a new heart
- there is a lack of heart donors so artificial hearts are being developed to keep the patients alive
- Advantages
- there is no need for immunosuppressant drugs which leave you vulnerable to infection
- do not need to match the person's tissues
- Disadvantages
- problems with blood clotting
- long stays in hospital
- they are expensive
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