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(Dan Tri) – Doctors in the US have successfully performed the world’s first pig heart transplant to a human.
Surgeon Muhammad Mohiuddin (center) and his team handle genetically modified pig hearts on January 7 (Photo: EPA).
Pig heart transplant surgery to human lasted 8 hours in Baltimore, USA on January 7.
`The heart beats and there is a pulse, there is pressure, as if it were his heart. The heart is working normally. We are very happy, but we don’t know yet what tomorrow will bring. This surgery
Scientists have worked hard to put hearts from genetically edited animals into operation in the human body without being rejected.
Bennett’s heart transplant took place just a few months after surgeons in New York successfully attached the kidney of a genetically modified pig to a brain-dead person.
Researchers expect transplant achievements will open a new era of medicine in the future, when half a million Americans still lack donated organs waiting for transplants.
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Patient David Bennett (right) and surgeon Bartley Griffith (Photo: EPA).
Patient Bennett decided to bet on the new treatment because he would likely die without a new heart to replace him.
Mr. Bennett’s transplanted heart was taken from a genetically modified pig provided by Revivicor, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Dr. Mohiuddin, who along with Dr. Griffith conducted much of the research leading up to the transplant, said a growth gene was also inactivated to prevent the pig’s heart from continuing to grow after being transplanted into the human body.
The team used a new experimental drug developed by Dr. Mohiuddin and manufactured by Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals to suppress the immune system and prevent rejection.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked diligently at the end of last year, before granting emergency authorization to doctors to perform transplant surgery.
Patient Bennett is still being closely monitored for any signs that his body is refusing to accept the new heart.
`Either die, or have this transplant. I want to live. I know it’s a glimmer of light in the darkness, but it’s my last choice,` Mr. Bennett said before the surgery.