“…Several pneumatic TAHs were developed in the 1980s, such as the Brno TAH (Vacord Bioengineering Research Company, Brno, Czech Republic) 37 , Penn State pneumatic TAH (Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania) 38 , Phoenix (Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan) 39,40 , Poisk TAH (Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplantation, Moscow, Russia) 41,42 , POLTAH (Artificial Heart Laboratory, Zabrze, Poland) 43 and Vienna TAH (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria) 44 . In the same period, the electrohydraulic TAH (EHTAH) was developed in Japan (Artificial Organs Department, Osaka, Japan) 45 .…”