The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig did not die due to his body rejecting the organ, according to doctors at the University of Maryland.
“We saw a thickening and later stiffening of the heart muscle leading to diastolic heart failure, which means the heart muscle was not able to relax and fill the heart with blood as it is supposed to," said Dr. Bartley Griffith, who is also the Clinical Director of the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program at UMSOM.
David Bennett, 57, received the pig heart transplant because he was too sick to receive a human heart transplant. Before his surgery in January, he said, “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice.” Bennett’s surgery showed for the first time a gene-edited animal heart can function in the human body without immediate rejection.
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