US surgeons perform world’s 2nd pig heart transplant in bid to save dying man

US surgeons perform world’s 2nd pig heart transplant in bid to save dying man

Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.
US surgeons perform world’s 2nd pig heart transplant in bid to save dying man

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27 Sep 2023

 This is the only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat.

 

The 58-year-old Navy veteran from Maryland, was facing near-certain death from heart failure but other health problems meant he wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant, according to doctors at University of Maryland Medicine.

“It’s just an amazing feeling to see this pig heart work in a human,” said Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin, the Maryland team’s xenotransplantation expert. But, he cautioned: “We don’t want to predict anything. We will take every day as a victory and move forward.”

The same Maryland team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into another dying man, David Bennett, who survived for two months.

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