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

 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.