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University of Maryland doctors in Baltimore perform first successful transplant of pig heart into human
BALTIMORE SUN | ^ | JAN 10, 2022 | HALLIE MILLER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: baltimore; manbearpig; pigheart; transplant
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To: beethovenfan

YES!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALpcxliWLeI


21 posted on 01/10/2022 3:15:51 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


22 posted on 01/10/2022 3:18:58 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: BenLurkin; Daffynition
Ha. Mere seconds before I discovered this thread, "Your cheating heart... is gonna tell on you" started playing in the background.
23 posted on 01/10/2022 3:19:01 PM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


24 posted on 01/10/2022 3:19:59 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: BenLurkin

Th-th-th,,That’s all folks!


25 posted on 01/10/2022 3:21:22 PM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: BenLurkin

Joy Behar was the donor?


26 posted on 01/10/2022 3:22:11 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: fella

I hope brains are next. There are a lot of dems that need one.


27 posted on 01/10/2022 3:22:50 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: BenLurkin

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?


28 posted on 01/10/2022 3:23:01 PM PST by iontheball
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To: BenLurkin
Bill Cosby’s Chicken Heart
29 posted on 01/10/2022 3:24:29 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Parmy

Barney Clark? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-barney-clark-whose-ethically-questionable-heart-transplant-advanced-science-180961271/


30 posted on 01/10/2022 3:24:56 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: iontheball

Huh?


31 posted on 01/10/2022 3:25:08 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: rktman

32 posted on 01/10/2022 3:25:20 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Pigs can live about 15 - 20 years..

Just saying..


33 posted on 01/10/2022 3:26:47 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SaveFerris

34 posted on 01/10/2022 3:28:29 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: BenLurkin

My late step-dad had a bovine heart valve replacement. Gave us a few more precious years with him. Good man.


35 posted on 01/10/2022 3:29:02 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm in the control group. I identify as "vaccinated".🤡)
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To: maddog55

‘Genetically altered’ pig heart.....could mean anything.


36 posted on 01/10/2022 3:29:15 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: clintonh8r

Probably a life sentence inmate given a deal.


37 posted on 01/10/2022 3:31:59 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Somehow, I thought they were already doing this. News to me.


38 posted on 01/10/2022 3:47:51 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: caww

Comes with mRNA and covid !!


39 posted on 01/10/2022 3:50:26 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: LadyDoc

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...


40 posted on 01/10/2022 3:54:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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