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Flashback: Germany's First Artificial Heart

July 8, 2013

In 1987, doctors at Berlin's Heart Center successfully implanted an artificial heart for the first time ever in the country. The doctor who led the operation was Roland Hetzer, who is still the head of the Heart Center.

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