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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: BenLurkin

Eat your heart out.


41 posted on 01/10/2022 4:14:29 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: BenLurkin

What did the piggy say. Guess he was unavailable for comment or he’d squeal.


42 posted on 01/10/2022 4:15:58 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count..)
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To: BenLurkin

How is someone a “good candidate” for a cross species transplant, but not for a human transplant? Just askin.


43 posted on 01/10/2022 4:24:11 PM PST by Segovia
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To: BenLurkin

Oddly enough, he now hates bacon. Go figure.


44 posted on 01/10/2022 4:24:24 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

I’m not very comfortable with this,
......................................
Care to elaborate?


45 posted on 01/10/2022 4:27:14 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


46 posted on 01/10/2022 4:27:27 PM PST by Bobalu (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth...)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


47 posted on 01/10/2022 4:30:46 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: BenLurkin

Kevin Bacon unavailable for comment.


48 posted on 01/10/2022 4:31:06 PM PST by ResponseAbility (-The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: BenLurkin

It is from a genetically modified pig designed to limit the possibility of rejection.


49 posted on 01/10/2022 4:33:12 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: BenLurkin

Anyone know where Al Gore is?


50 posted on 01/10/2022 4:37:28 PM PST by Zathras
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


51 posted on 01/10/2022 4:40:36 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count..)
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To: caww

Vaxxed heart?


52 posted on 01/10/2022 4:44:40 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: BenLurkin

Jurassic Park 101:

Being able to do a particular thing does not mean that it is a good idea to do that particular thing.


53 posted on 01/10/2022 5:24:57 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: BenLurkin

was the pig humanized at all like mice first?


54 posted on 01/10/2022 5:38:43 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


55 posted on 01/10/2022 5:46:24 PM PST by Arlis
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To: BenLurkin

Kramer was RIGHT.


56 posted on 01/10/2022 5:51:09 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: BenLurkin

When he gets out, I would like to hire him to help me find truffles.


57 posted on 01/10/2022 6:19:07 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: BenLurkin

“.. 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.


58 posted on 01/10/2022 6:40:13 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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To: TexasGator

I couldn’t help laughing out loud when I misread “beacon of hope” as “bacon of hope”.


59 posted on 01/10/2022 7:52:32 PM PST by William Tell
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To: BenLurkin

When are they going to transplant a human heart into a pig?


60 posted on 01/10/2022 8:04:36 PM PST by NorseWood
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