First person in UK fitted with artificial heart that will allow him to go home

A 40-year-old father has become the first person in the UK to receive a total artificial heart that will enable him to go home.Matthew Green had been critically ill, suffering from end-stage failure of both chambers of his heart. This meant his organ struggled to pump blood around his body and left him on the brink of death.
But today he was preparing to return home after undergoing the ground-breaking surgery at Papworth Hospital, near CambridgeDoctors at the hospital have previously implanted a total artificial heart but this is the first time a patient has been well enough to leave hospital and go home.
The operation - which has also been completed successfully in the United States and parts of Europe - could help cut transplant waiting times in the future.