For the first time in Israel: Artificial heart is transplanted successfully

Hadassah doctors performed the country’s first-ever complete artificial heart transplant on a 63-year-old patient, offering new hope for patients with severe heart failure.

HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center doctors are hard at work inserting an artificial heart into a patient, last week.(Hadassah-University Medical Center)

(photo credit: Hadassah-University Medical Center)

ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

JUNE 1, 2025 10:59

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For the first time in Israel: Artificial heart is transplanted successfully

Hadassah doctors performed the country’s first-ever complete artificial heart transplant on a 63-year-old patient, offering new hope for patients with severe heart failure.

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