New artificial heart could save 300 patients a year - Medicine. A new artificial heart that could save, in Italy alone, up to 300 more patients per year, with a huge impact on transplants internationally.
Trentino cardiac surgeon Gino Gerosa, director of the complex cardiac surgery unit of the Padua hospital-university company and the Gallucci Center of Padua, has been working on the project for ten years. Born in Rovereto, Gerosa is world famous for his fully successful "extreme" heart transplants.