In the Chinese city of Wuhan, surgeons have successfully transplanted an artificial heart with magnetic levitation weighing only 45 grams to a 7-year-old child.

It is noted that the third-generation magnetic levitation device is designed to treat heart failure in children. Every year, about 40 thousand children with heart failure are hospitalized in China. Of these, 7–10% need an urgent transplant.

However, the country performs less than 100 pediatric transplants a year due to an acute shortage of donors. However, in Wuhan, surgeons have successfully transplanted a tiny artificial heart the size of a coin, which is moved by magnetic levitation, into a 7-year-old boy.