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| Name | Doctors Transplant Pig Heart into Human for 1st Time |
| Video Uploader | Video From Voice of America |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 11-01-2022 03:15:07 |
| Video Discription | In a medical first, doctors said they had transplanted a pig heart into a patient days ago in a last-ditch effort to save his life at a Maryland hospital, January 10. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center said Monday that the patient is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it's too soon to know if the operation will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection. The patient, David Bennett, 57, knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work. There's a huge shortage of human organs donated for transplant, driving scientists to try to figure out how to use animal organs instead. Last year, there were just over 3,800 heart transplants in the U.S., a record number, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which oversees the nation's transplant system. But prior attempts at such transplants – or xenotransplantation – have failed, largely because patients' bodies rapidly rejected the animal organ. Notably, in 1984, Baby Fae, a dying infant, lived 21 days with a baboon heart. The difference this time: The Maryland surgeons used a heart from a pig that had undergone gene editing to remove a sugar in its cells that's responsible for that hyper-fast organ rejection. The Food and Drug Administration, which oversees xenotransplantation experiments, allowed the surgery under what's called a "compassionate use" emergency authorization, available when a patient with a life-threatening condition has no other options. Bennett was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son told The Associated Press. https://www.voanews.com/a/in-a-first-us-surgeons-transplant-pig-heart-into-human-patient-/6391010.html hDkY3pZsPGo |
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