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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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posted on
01/10/2022 3:03:35 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Seinfeld pig-man episode......
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:05:48 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:06:08 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: BenLurkin
I see swine flu in someone’s future. 🐖
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:06:30 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:07:05 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: BenLurkin
Anybody remember Barney Miller, the guy who spent his last couple of month, years ago, in a hospital bed tethered to a heart machine?
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:07:20 PM PST
by
Parmy
To: BenLurkin
Chimera.
What could go wrong?
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:07:38 PM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:07:39 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:08:28 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:08:41 PM PST
by
MercyFlush
(DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:08:51 PM PST
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:10:10 PM PST
by
Luke21
To: beethovenfan
The government’s been experimenting with Pig-Men since the 50s!!!
Your tagline
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:10:15 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: BenLurkin
muslims wont be getting any of these
To: Fungi
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:10:42 PM PST
by
TheDon
(Resist the usurpers)
To: BenLurkin
After a pig-heart transplant I’m betting bacon is off the menu for the patient.
To: BenLurkin
Transplanting is easy.
Stopping rejection is the problem.
And then there is the problem of pig viruses...which could jump the species barrier after being transplanted and cause epidemics.
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:11:53 PM PST
by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: BenLurkin
In before the lousy jokes.
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:14:02 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: TexasGator
Hopefully this same technology can be expanded to allow for kidney transplants as well. I know someone who needs one, but is not a good candidate for a human transplant.
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posted on
01/10/2022 3:14:39 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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