SYDNEY, March 11 -- In a medical breakthrough, an Australian man became the first patient to be discharged from a hospital with a total artificial heart implant, according to The Guardian.

The British daily reported yesterday that doctors at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney implanted the BiVACOR total artificial heart in November last year during a six-hour procedure led by cardiothoracic surgeon Paul Jansz.

The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, lived with the device for over 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in March.

The BiVACOR artificial heart, developed by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, is the first implantable rotary blood pump designed to fully replace a human heart, using magnetic levitation tech...