Doctors Implant Kid’s Artificial Heart

Last fall, doctors at the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital performed what some may call the impossible: the implantation of a total artificial heart in one of the youngest and smallest patients in the world. David Peng, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist and the director of the pediatric heart failure and mechanical circulatory support at C.S. Mott, shares insights from the case, including the boy’s condition of acute myocarditis and the life saving procedure he described as their “Hail Mary.”