{"id":4260,"date":"2013-05-17T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-uses-space-technology-to-modify-artificial-heart\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:29:25","slug":"china-uses-space-technology-to-modify-artificial-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-uses-space-technology-to-modify-artificial-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"China Uses Space Technology to Modify Artificial Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TIANJIN, May 14 (Xinhua) &#8212; A sheep implanted with a new type of artificial heart developed by Chinese scientists using cutting-edge aerospace technology has lived for 62 days thus far, the heart&#8217;s developers announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The development of the heart was jointly conducted by scientists from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital in north China&#8217;s Tianjin Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The sheep, nicknamed &#8220;Tianjiu,&#8221; is in sound condition after receiving the blood pump on March 14, said Liu Xiaocheng, president of the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He said researchers used magnetic suspension and hydrodynamic bearings &#8212; both examples of aerospace technology &#8212; to design and produce an implantable third-generation ventricular assist device (VAD), a mechanical pump used to support heart function and blood flow in people with weakened hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The device is the first of its kind to be fitted with a battery and controller. The sheep experiment is similar to a clinical implantation, the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Once the device is marketed, it may end suffering for the 16 million people in China with failing hearts, as many patients are waiting for heart transplants.<\/p>\n<p>China began research on VAD in the early 1980s. Clinical use of commercialized VADs had yet to take place until now.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIANJIN, May 14 (Xinhua) &#8212; A sheep implanted with a new type of artificial heart developed by Chinese scientists using cutting-edge aerospace technology has lived for 62 days thus far, the heart&#8217;s developers announced on Monday. The development of the heart was jointly conducted by scientists from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}