Tag: transplant
First successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human
News Posted on 01/11/2022 at 12:11 p.m., Reading 2 mins. Three days after the transplant, the patient, who was not eligible for a conventional transplant, is doing well. A world…
A First in Medicine: Pig-to-Human Heart Transplantation
A genetically modified pig heart has been transplanted into a person suffering from a fatal heart disease in the USA. The surgery, a first in the history of medicine, was…
First pig-to-human heart transplant performed in the US
A pig heart was transplanted as a last resort to a 57-year-old heart patient who was dying at a hospital in the US state of Maryland. It was announced that…