Porcine retrovirus. Let's not give some 'people' ideas on that one.
Good luck Mr. Bennett. I hope the collabboaration works, and you feel swine.
Posted on 01/10/2022 6:36:56 PM PST by 11th_VA
A man is doing well after the first successful transplant of a pig heart into a human body, possibly opening a new path for those facing an overburdened donor system, according to the University of Maryland.
The Food and Drug Administration on New Year’s Eve gave emergency authorization for David Bennett, 57, to receive a genetically modified pig heart, the University of Maryland Medical Center said. Bennett, who had been deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant, had been hospitalized for six weeks with a life-threatening arrhythmia and was connected to a heart-lung bypass machine.
Dr. Bartley Griffith, the operating physician, on Monday described the transplant as a "breakthrough surgery."
"There are simply not enough donor human hearts available to meet the long list of potential recipients," Griffith said in a statement. "We are proceeding cautiously, but we are also optimistic that this first-in-the-world surgery will provide an important new option for patients in the future."
Griffith and Dr. Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, spent five years perfecting techniques for transplanting pig hearts into nonhuman recipients.
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“Doesn’t sound kosher to me ...”
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Boom!
In before the first pig jo. .ah. . too late.
Wee wee wee all the way home.
What does it look like after you put lipstick on him?
Performed by a cardiologist who is also an oinkologist.
And pork futures go through the roof.
Porcine retrovirus. Let's not give some 'people' ideas on that one.
Good luck Mr. Bennett. I hope the collabboaration works, and you feel swine.
Oh crap - this one will be called the Frankenvirus ...
All human donor hearts declared Corona Virus 19 Positivity?
Hogwash. You made me snort. Nothing is ever boaring around here
If he survives can he go to Mecca?
Dang - I did a search on “pig” and saw nothing
= Nadler.
After the surgery, the doctors checked his blood pressure with a spigmomanometer.
How do they manage the body wanting to reject that heart?
You won the thread.
No pic of aoc? 😊
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