Almost 20 years have passed since Barney Clark lived for 112 days on the Jarvik-7 heart.
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Patients on the CardioWest heart, the successor to the Jarvik-7, have to wheel around a machine the size of a small refrigerator and are confined to a hospital.
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Artificial hearts are nothing new: AbioMed implanted its first replacement heart unit in 2001, and as far back as the 1980s the considerably more cumbersome Jarvik 7 was unveiled to the public.