Artificial heart gets green light to go on market


Vital aid: HeartCon, which features an artificial blood pump, is China’s first implantable left ventricular assist device. — China Daily/ANN

BEIJING: When the popular TV series Dr Tang, featuring a made-in-China artificial heart, ended in mid-July, an artificial heart with the combination of domestic rocket and medical technologies was coincidentally approved by national medical product authorities and went on the market.

The implantable left ventricular assist device, named HeartCon or “rocket heart” and independently developed and produced by Rocor Medical Technology Co, was approved by the National Medical Products Administration to enter the market tomorrow.

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