Thank you for the link, this is great stuff. The longest the AbioCor heart functioned in clinical trials was 18 months, while continuous flow devices are being

Thank you for the link, this is great stuff. The longest the AbioCor heart functioned in clinical trials was 18 months, while continuous flow devices are being designed to operate for 10 or more years. Frazier also says continuous flow pumps are better able to respond to the body's changing needs for blood. "If you're walking, more blood is pumped back to the heart and the heart will automatically pump more," he says. If pressure on one side of the pump increases, flow through the device automatically increases, allowing the pump to respond like a native heart, Frazier says. Here's hoping all of Frazier's predictions are true, including the one about the 2050 Olympics.