CH Biomedical: Pioneering world's smallest maglev artificial heart for humans
- China
- 4 min read
- Aug 05, 2020
- By Li Yuan
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Suzhou-based startup has created a maglev “artificial heart” that helps patients to recover quickly, return to normal life and even go skiing
US company World Heart Corp gave up on the ventricular assist device Levacor project, but Chen Chen, one of its creators, did not. He resigned in 2007 and returned to China to work on developing a smaller and better artificial heart. In 2014, the founder of CH Biomedical unveiled the world’s smallest maglev artificial heart.
Suzhou-based CH Biomedical’s fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device (Full MagLev LVAD), or in layman’s term “artificial heart,” could be used for destination therapy or bridge-to-transplantation. Only 26mm thick, with 50mm in diameter, the CH-VAD de...
Suzhou-based CH Biomedical’s fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device (Full MagLev LVAD), or in layman’s term “artificial heart,” could be used for destination therapy or bridge-to-transplantation. Only 26mm thick, with 50mm in diameter, the CH-VAD de...
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