Tom Cruise. Similar age.
Posted on 01/10/2022 8:28:38 PM PST by algore
Doctors in Baltimore have transplanted a genetically-modified pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life, in a medical first.
Three days later, David Bennett, 57, is said to be recovering and doing well after the nine-hour procedure.
Experts say it is too soon to know if the operation really will work, but it marks a step forward in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Bennett is breathing on his own without a ventilator, but is still using a Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine that helps pump blood throughout his body. Doctors hope to wean him off the device slowly.
Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.
And this medical first could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.
Bennett knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son told The Associated Press.
'It was either die or do this transplant,' said Bennett, a day before the surgery, according to a statement provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
'I want to live. I know it's a shot in the dark, but it's my last choice.'
Dr. Bartley Griffith said it was a 'memorable' and 'pretty strange' conversation.
'I said, 'We can't give you a human heart; you don't qualify. But maybe we can use one from an animal, a pig,' Dr. Griffith said.
'It's never been done before, but we think we can do it.
'I wasn't sure he was understanding me,' Dr. Griffith added.
'Then he said, 'Well, will I oink?
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Do his farts smell like bacon? 🤪
‘Well, will I oink?’
Quotable.
This just doesn’t seem kosher to me.
Case 1: Claire Sylvia develops desire for chicken nuggets and green peppers
When released to go home how much do you want to bet he well become over whelmed with the desire to go truffle hunting?
They put a baboon heart in an infant...long time ago. Baby Fae...lasted one month. Wonder why they didn’t use artificial heart. May last a while...but clots , bleeding, infections, and organ failure do happen. Pig heart probably not halal.
MD ‘Island of Dr. Moreau’ Ping! (I think........🤔)
Now the poor guy’s got to worry about covid AND the swine flu.
Well, South Park called this one.
Why does the article title say advertisement?
It would feel very strange to be in this mans shoes...
I wish him well!
Tom Cruise. Similar age.
Let’s see how it goes - if it succeeds, this will be a miracle for the many people hoping to get a heart transplant before they die. Best wishes for this man, so he and others can also live.
Tom Cruise, very expensive plastic surgery and lots of it.
He will not survive long...
Shaheed Ali Mohammed has not been told yet, but his Doctor Joshua schwartz quipped, I plan to tik tok the conversation
Why was he ineligible...because he was white?
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