Israel celebrated its first successful artificial heart transplant at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on May 25. Four days later, a second successful artificial heart transplant took place at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.
The Aeson artificial hearts used in the procedures, made by French company CARMAT, have only been employed in 114 such surgeries worldwide.
“This is a great step forward,” said Prof. Rabea Asleh, director of the Heart Failure Unit and the Cardiovascular Research Center at Hadassah Ein Kerem, who performed the May 25 surgery with Dr. Alexander Lipey-Diamant, Prof. Offer Amir and Dr. Amit Korach. “It’s a historical moment.”
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