Euphoria in the American medical community after successfully transplanting the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient. It is the first time that it is achieved. According to experts, it was the last hope of keeping David Bennet, a 57-year-old man who had been bedridden for months, alive. “It was either dying or doing this transplant,” he explained before posing with surgeon Bartley Griffith, from the University of Maryland:
– “I think this transplant is important because we do not have a source of replacement for human organs. And there are people who, due to the scarcity of donations of human hearts and their relative value, are not included in transplants due to age and other reasons. “explains Dr. Griffith.
This unprecedented operation opens a door of hope for thousands of heart patients awaiting transplantation in the United States. It is estimated that there are about 110,000 and about 6,000 die each year without receiving it.
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