Alain Carpentier

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Alain Frédéric Carpentier
Born (1933-08-11) 11 August 1933 (age 90)
Heart Surgery
InstitutionsPierre and Marie Curie University

Alain Frédéric Carpentier (born 11 August 1933) is a French

Lasker Prize
.

Biography

He received his MD from the

Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, he currently heads the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris. In 1986, he and Gilles Dreyfus performed the first artificial heart implant in Europe.[2]

Carpentier is a member of the

philanthropists in the world, having established a premier cardiac center in Vietnam
a decade ago where over 1,000 open-heart cases are now performed annually. In addition, he has founded cardiac surgery programs in 17 French-speaking countries in Africa." In October 2001 he received an Honorary Doctor of Medicine and Surgery degree from University of Pavia.[3]

In 2006, Carpentier received considerable media attention in the United States as the surgeon who performed an emergency mitral valve repair procedure on Charlie Rose when the PBS television interviewer fell ill while en route to Damascus to interview Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In 1989, Carpentier pioneered work to use the patient's own skeletal muscle (the latimissus dorsi muscle) to repair the failing myocardium, a procedure known as cardiomyoplasty, which has since advanced into the exciting realms of tissue engineering science.[4][5] In 2008, Carpentier announced a fully implantable artificial heart will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, and for alternative to transplant in 2013. It was developed and will be manufactured by him, Biomedical firm Carmat, and venture capital firm Truffle. The prototype uses electronic sensors and is made from chemically treated animal tissues, called "biomaterials," or a "pseudo-skin" of biosynthetic, microporous materials, amid another US team's prototype called 2005 MagScrew Total Artificial Heart, and Japan and South Korea researchers are racing to produce similar projects.[6][7] The first clinical trial are under process since 2013.

From 2009 to 2012, Carpentier was vice-president and then president of the French Academy of Sciences.[8]

Publications

Honors

Notes

  1. ^ Adams, David; Cohn, Lawrence. Cardiac Surgery in the Adult 5/e. McGraw Hill.
  2. ^ Artificial Heart, Orlando Sentinel, 19 February 1986
  3. ^ a b "Volti di laureati ad honorem". Associazione Laureati UniPV (in Italian). Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  4. OCLC 35651227.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  5. S2CID 42923537
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  6. ^ "Total artificial heart to be ready by 2011: research team". Agence France-Presse. 27 October 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  7. ^ Sage, Adam (28 October 2008). "Scientists develop artificial heart that beats like the real thing". The Times. London. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  8. ^ "Présidents de l'Académie des sciences de 1666 à nos jours". Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

References

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