An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. The device is used as a stopgap for people with heart failure who are waiting for a donor heart, and previous recipients of this type of artificial heart had remained in US hospitals while it was in place.

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date for someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified,