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Artificial Heart Recipient Goes Home With Freedom Driver Charles Okeke is the first patient in the US to go home with an artificial heartThe Freedom Driver that powers his Syncardia Total Artificial Heart is just what the doctor ordered, replacing a 400 pound behemoth that keeps artificial heart recipients tied to hospitals (Updated Freedom Driver for artificial heart video)Oh, and then there's the price At $125,000 plus $18,000/year in maintenance costs, the Freedom Driver will not be beating in the chests of all 3,000 heart transplant wait list patients anytime soonThe Freedom Driver fits inside a backpack, and drives compressed air into Stan Larkin's artificial heart to keep it pumping What drives power to Larkin's artificial heart, and others like it, is a 1st Pediatric Total Artificial Heart Patient Discharged Home Using Freedom Portable Driver Freedom driver heart