Posted on 05/05/2022 1:09:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
David Bennett Sr., 57, first seemed to be doing well the first few weeks after he received the history-making heart transplant on January 7 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, but his condition suddenly took a dramatic turn for the worse, the MIT Technology Review reported Wednesday.
“He looked really funky,” Dr. Bartley Griffith, Bennett’s transplant surgeon, said during an American Society of Transplantation webinar.
“Something happened to him. He looked infected.”
Despite doctors’ efforts to save the patient by treating him with an AIDS drug and antibodies from blood donors, he died March 8.
Griffith said that subsequent tests showed that the transplanted pig heart was infected with porcine cytomegalovirus, which in pigs can cause a wide range of symptoms, from pink eye and sneezing to pregnancy complications and stillbirths.
The virus previously has been linked to pig organ transplant failures in baboons.
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They don't doctors like they used to.
Headline should read: "Pig heart used in pioneering human transplant had virus: report"
That was my thought.
Ain’t affirmative action grand?
Dr. Griffith graduated from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University in 1974. He works in Baltimore, MD and 4 other locations and specializes in Cardiovascular Disease and Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Griffith is affiliated with University Of Maryland Saint Joseph Medical Center and University Of Maryland Medical Center.
Science!
Mr Sin
Mr Sin, also called the Pig, was a Peking Homunculus.
History
Mr Sin was a 51st century cyborg made by Dr. Sa Yy Findecker for Ingrid Bjarnsdottir, the commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance, as a toy for her two children. It contained a series of magnetic fields on a printed circuit, a small computer, and a single organic component: the cerebral cortex of a pig.
The Homunculus attacked Commissioner Bjarnsdottir’s son with a table fork. However, he survived and could not see what all the fuss was about. In fact, he believed that the cyborg was playing a game with him.
It played a key role in history when the pig part took over and almost caused World War VI, then disappeared. It later showed up in the possession of Magnus Greel, a fugitive war criminal from the fallen Supreme Alliance. He took it with him to the 19th century. Armed with a knife, it did his bidding.
During the final battle between the Fourth Doctor and Greel, Mr Sin, whom Greel had unwisely allowed access to a laser rifle, became trigger-happy and fired at anyone who moved, including Greel’s men and Greel himself. The Doctor finally threw it to the ground and tore out its fuse.
Sherlock Holmes later investigated Mr Sin, terming it The Affair of the Walking Ventriloquist’s Dummy, but was unable to solve the matter.
Sin was later reactivated by Hsien-Ko Chang, the daughter of Greel’s former ally, Li H’sen Chang, using the prototype control fuse and brains from a slaughterhouse. Hsien-Ko believed that she could use Sin as a weapon the way Greel had failed to do so. Although she maintained a tighter hold on Sin’s more violent tendencies — disguising him as a child to avoid attracting attention — she lost control when he was damaged in a fight at her base. In the subsequent fight, the Doctor decapitated Sin. K9 later destroyed the cyborg’s head to prevent it ever being reactivated
So they didn’t test the pig for diseases before the transplant.
Sounds like malpractice to me.🤔
No they just picked the heart from a pig named Aby somebody.
Good one.👍
Happened to a friend of mine over 40 years ago. He was given a pig valve which turned out to be infected. As a result, he was hospitalized for over six months. He survived, but was never the same, afterwards.
Damn, I had a pig valve installed in me at the UMMC about 5 years ago. Luckily still ticking.
You’re always supposed to cook pork first.
Was the patient vaccinated for the coof?
Because I can’t believe they didn’t test the donor pig for PCMV.
The at risk patient might also have gotten a nosocomial case of the coof from a vaxxed superspreader employee.
PCMV, my glutes.
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