... first time in history. Could be a game changer. The recipient was not eligible for a human heart transplant. This was a last ditch effort to save his life. Congratulation University of Maryland for this groundbreaking achievement.
US surgeons transplant a PIG heart into a human in world first
David Bennett, 57, has been living for three days with a pig heart. Doctors transplanted the organ in a last ditch to save Bennett's life, who has been bedridden on a heart-lung bypass machine.
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