New report details sequence of events leading up to death of man who received pig heart transplant
Doctors still don’t know why the man who received a pig heart transplant died.
In a new paper in NEJM, the team of doctors from the University of Maryland, led by Bartley Griffith, detailed the sequence of events that followed after 57-year-old David Bennett received a pig heart, which failed 49 days after it was transplanted. Bennett died shortly after, 60 days after he received the genetically modified heart.
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