Carmat

• Second artificial heart implant due in 'weeks': French heartmaker

  After its first recipient died, French biomedical firm Carmat said on Monday it expected to try again to implant its experimental artificial heart in another patient "in several weeks".

• First patient fitted with Carmat artificial heart dies

  The first patient fitted with an artificial heart made by the French company Carmat has died, the hospital that had performed the transplant in December said on Monday.

• French firm starts human trials of artificial heart

  French biomedical firm Carmat said on Friday it had begun the first human trial of an artificial heart aimed at overcoming shortages of organs available for transplant.