Doctors in the USA successfully transplanted a pig’s heart into a human – RBC

NYT: US Doctors Successfully Transplant Genetically Modified Pig Heart into Human

According to surgeons, the heart is working normally, and the 57-year-old patient is doing well

American doctors transplanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a 57-year-old man writes The New York Times citing surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

The operation was carried out in the city of Baltimore and lasted eight hours. According to the doctors, the patient is doing well.

“It (heart. – RBK) creates a pulse, creates pressure – this is his heart. It works and looks fine. <...> Nobody has done this before, “said Bartley Griffith, program manager at the heart transplant center, who performed the operation.

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