US Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Heart into Human Patient

US doctors have successfully transplanted a ‘porcine’ heart into an adult person with end-stage cardiac disease in what has been labeled a ‘first-of-its-kind procedure.’

The 57-year-old Maryland resident with fatal heart disease underwent a successful genetically modified pig heart transplant three days later and is claimed to be doing well.

“It was the only currently available option for the patient,” the University of Maryland Medicine said following the landmark procedure on Monday (January 10, 2022).

The University announced in a statement that “this organ transplant revealed for the first time that a genetically modified animal heart may function as a human heart without immediate rejection by the body.”

The patient, David Bennett, is currently being monitored to see if the transplant will save his life in the next days and weeks.

He had been ruled ineligible for a traditional heart transplant at UMMC as well as numerous other prominent transplant centers that reviewed his medical data, according to the university.

“Either I died or I did the transplant. I’d like to live. I realize it’s a gamble, but it’s my final resort “Before the surgery, Bennett, who had been hospitalized and immobilized for several months, stated.

The surgical transplant of the pig heart, according to Bartley P Griffith, MD, was a “breakthrough surgery” that “brings us one step closer to solving the organ scarcity dilemma.”

“We’re going with caution,” Griffith said, “but we’re also optimistic that this world-first procedure will provide a crucial new alternative for patients in the future.”

The US Food and Drug Administration, using its extended access (compassionate use) option, had granted emergency authorization for the surgery on New Year’s Eve.

It’s utilized when a patient with a critical or life-threatening medical condition has no other option except to employ an experimental medicinal product, in this case, a genetically modified pig’s heart.

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