Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life
– only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday.
“You know, I just keep shaking my head – how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?” Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The Associated Press. He said doctors are feeling “a great privilege but, you know, a lot of pressure.”of a genetically modified pig heart into another dying man, David Bennett, who survived just two months.“Nobody knows from this point forward.
Attempts at animal-to-human organ transplants have failed for decades, as people's immune systems immediately destroyed the foreign tissue. Now scientists are trying again using pigspig kidneys and hearts It took over 300 pages of documents filed with FDA, but the Maryland researchers made their case that they’d learned enough from their first attempt last year – even though that patient died for reasons that aren’t fully understood – that it made sense to try again.
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