An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.

An Australian man lived for over 100 days with an artificial titanium heart before successfully receiving a donor transplant, marking the longest recorded survival with the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart.

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney implanted the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart in a critically ill patient.

An Australian man made history by living for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while awaiting a donor transplant, according to a March 12 report by CNN. The patient, in his 40s, underwent surgery at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney in November 2024 and reportedly became the first person worldwide to leave the hospital with the device in February.

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to be discharged from a hospital while fitted with a fully functional artificial heart. The patient,