A Michigan father of three with a debilitating heart condition lived for 555 days, thanks to a portable artificial heart. "It's just in a bag with tubes coming out of you, but other than that, it feels like a real heart. "It's just like a real heart," Larkin told CNN. In May, he received a heart transplant. After his disease progressed to bi-ventrical dysplasia, in which both of his heart’s chambers were unable to pump blood, Larkin was put on the heart transplant waiting list.

Source: Fox News June 13, 2016 12:56 UTC