French implant artificial heart with five-year span

A French company has carried out its first implant of an artificial heart that can beat for up to five years, adding that the operation had gone smoothly.

The implant operation was performed on Wednesday at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, biomedical firm, Carmat, said in a statement.

It said that the male patient was awake and talking and he was being monitored in the intensive care unit.