Man who received first transplanted pig heart dies

Photo: Surgeon Bartley P. Griffith, MD leads a team conducting a transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart […] University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)/Handout via Reuters. Article by Lauran Neergaard, AP and Carla K. Johnson, AP. PBS – March 9, 2022.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun deteriorating several days earlier. […]

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