{"id":257429,"date":"2022-01-11T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=257429"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:59:04","slug":"ug-surgeons-implant-pig-heart-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/ug-surgeons-implant-pig-heart-human-body\/","title":{"rendered":"US surgeons successfully embed pig heart into a human body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, David Bennet. According to the official statements from the University of Maryland Medical School, this “historic” surgery took place on Friday. This organ transplant helped to solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said that it was a major milestone in animal to human transplants as the condition of the patient was uncertain. It was deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant at UMMC and at other leading transplant centers. This was said by them after reviewing his medical records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the current condition of the patient?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the patient’s situation is better and he is showing signs of recovery from the surgery. He is now under observation to determine how his organ will be performing after an organ transplant in his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has been said by the patient before his surgery?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A 57-year-old man David Bennet said that he will either die or will do this organ transplant. He said that he wants to live more. He knew that it was just like a shot in the dark but it was his last choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has been said by the patient after his surgery?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The patient said that once he recovered after the surgery, he is looking forward to getting out of his bed. He was bed-ridden for the last several months on a heart-lung bypass machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What has been said by Bartley P Griffith, MD who performs the surgery?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bartley P Griffith, MD, who had successfully implanted a pig heart into the human body said that this is a breakthrough surgery. This surgery will help to solve various problems related to organ transplants such as the organ shortage crisis. Besides this, he said that the team is proceeding cautiously and they are optimistic that this first-in-the-world surgery will provide new options to patients in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This decision was taken by health officials usually when the patient’s health condition is very poor. They said that it was a major milestone in animal-to-human transplants as the patient’s condition was uncertain. He was bed-ridden for the last several months on a heart-lung bypass machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":257451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"US surgeons successfully embed pig heart into a human body\n\n#USSurgeons #OrganTransplant #Health #PigHeart","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[111298,1497,110599],"tags":[94970,118607,118605,118612,118608,118611,118609,118606],"yst_prominent_words":[80887,12110,12109,36023],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/01\/11114858\/PIG-HEART.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257429"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=257429"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=257429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}