Posted on 01/10/2022 3:03:35 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Maryland man is doing well after surgeons and clinicians from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center performed the first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig’s heart Friday to save his life, officials from the health system said Monday.
After being diagnosed with terminal heart disease, the patient, 57-year-old David Bennett, had been deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center and other transplant centers around the country. Doctors will monitor him in the hospital over the next several weeks or months to ensure that his body doesn’t reject the new heart.
Pig hearts have been long been reviewed as potential swaps for the human heart given their similarities. Some people already have received heart valves from pigs as replacements.
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I have mixed feelings about this. I’m not very comfortable with this, but if it’s safe and saved his life then that’s a good thing regardless of my feelings.
Last year:
Earlier this week, surgeons at New York University’s Langone Transplant Institute successfully performed a pig kidney transplant. This in itself would be unremarkable. What does mark the achievement as unprecedented is the identity of the donor – a genetically modified pig.
Some days post-surgery, the recipient, a brain-dead patient whose family consented to the experimental procedure, has not rejected the kidney and tests show that it is functioning normally. This incredible feat is significant both as a demonstration of scientific control over biological systems and as a beacon of hope to others in line for a transplant.
Th-th-th,,That’s all folks!
Joy Behar was the donor?
I hope brains are next. There are a lot of dems that need one.
No pig deal, its just part of the vogue transhumanizing agenda. Wait until you hear voices talking to you in your head. Then you will realize you are part of the ‘Grand Experiment.’ Whether or not you still are ‘human’ and retain your soul is the question you ought to contemplate. Does this chimera comport with Christ’s creation?
Huh?
Pigs can live about 15 - 20 years..
Just saying..
My late step-dad had a bovine heart valve replacement. Gave us a few more precious years with him. Good man.
‘Genetically altered’ pig heart.....could mean anything.
Probably a life sentence inmate given a deal.
Somehow, I thought they were already doing this. News to me.
Comes with mRNA and covid !!
yup
the two things i was thinking
those drugs suppress your immune system and you need to be on them forever
better to try to develop the tech to regrow a persons own organs to greatly reduce rejection risk and stay off those drugs
who knows if someday you cannot get them anymore...
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