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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Eat your heart out.
What did the piggy say. Guess he was unavailable for comment or he’d squeal.
How is someone a “good candidate” for a cross species transplant, but not for a human transplant? Just askin.
Oddly enough, he now hates bacon. Go figure.
I’m not very comfortable with this,
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Care to elaborate?
I heard Robin Williams on Craig Ferguson’s late night show once saying he had a bovine heart valve implanted.
I believe his valves were damaged by childhood rheumatic fever, an autoimmune disease triggered by streptococcus A.
Rejection is the primary reason transplants fail, the creation of a nano-tech artificial immune system is a holy grail of trans-humanists and would be a huge step forward for implants of all sorts and a breakthrough for type-1 physical immortality.
A former co-worker, young guy in his 20s, had a pig heart valve installed due to a congenital defect. Last I knew, he was doing fine.
Kevin Bacon unavailable for comment.
It is from a genetically modified pig designed to limit the possibility of rejection.
Anyone know where Al Gore is?
A good friend of mine, now gone a long time past, had a heart valve that had been replaced with a valve from a pigs heart. I became acquainted with him when he relocated upon retirement in the early 90’s . Other than taking a blood thinner he was as fit and able as most his age. A friend cherished and missed with fond remembrances.
Bless that pig’s heart and his too.
Vaxxed heart?
Jurassic Park 101:
Being able to do a particular thing does not mean that it is a good idea to do that particular thing.
was the pig humanized at all like mice first?
I have a pig valve in my heart - my aortic valve was bi-cuspid (genetic) and I wouldn’t be here without it.
I am very thankful to God and medicine - and the pig - for my valve that has me very healthy today at 76.
Kramer was RIGHT.
When he gets out, I would like to hire him to help me find truffles.
“.. the patient, 57-year-old David Bennett, had been deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant ...”
Hadn’t gotten the Jab ... so it was a pig’s heart for him. The ultimate social and physical insult to the unvaccinated.
I couldn’t help laughing out loud when I misread “beacon of hope” as “bacon of hope”.
When are they going to transplant a human heart into a pig?
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