The most advanced artificial heart in the world, invented by eight students from the University of Medicine in Iasi, has been improved and will have a mobile phone application. Patients will be able to see the battery level, energy level and the volume of blood being pumped.
The artificial heart developed in Iasi PHOTO: Mavis Artificial Heart/FB
The concept thought up by the young students proposes, for the artificial heart, a remote power system with batteries that can be charged very easily, experts say.
The new prototype, which should last a hundred years, received the title of the most advanced artificial heart in the world last year.
Currently, the prototype has been improved and will be presented at an international competition in Japan. This time, the young people also developed a mobile phone application, according to Știrile Pro TV.
“A simple interface so that patients can see the battery level, the energy level, the volume of blood that is being pumped and other parameters so that the human knows what is going on,” stands up Otilia Pintilii, team representative.
The inventors hope the device will eventually be used to save lives hanging by a thread.
At the end of the summer, after accessing some grants, the team proposes to test the heart, for the first time, on animals.
Artificial heart made in Romania. The project of some students from Iași awarded in the USA
In 2023, Romania wrote history in the medical world. The grand prize for the most advanced artificial heart was won by the team from Iasi of the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
She participated in and won the final of an international competition, which aims to encourage and support research dedicated to the development of the artificial heart. The contest took place in Texas – USA. The young people from Iasi participated along with seven other teams of researchers from the USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand.
The project was born in October 2022, when the young people from UMF Iași started working on a titanium prototype with a magnetic levitation engine.
“It was a challenge. Working with students, you have to gather them from various faculties, from various internships. But, being motivated and having a very important goal, they participated and were interested in the project“, confesses Dr. Alexandru Pleșoianu, team coordinator.
The young people's project from the University of Medicine in Iași takes place in the context where heart transplantation is an extremely rare intervention, due to the small number of donors. On the other hand, cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality in Romania. Annually, less than ten such interventions are performed in our country.
