In historic first, surgeons transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a dying patient
Two and a half months after an NYU team dubiously claimed to have performed the first ever pig-to-human organ transplant, a team at the University of Maryland Medical Center appears to have actually done it.
The center announced Monday evening that surgeons there successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease. The patient, David Bennett, was too sick to qualify for a human donor and had run out of other options.
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