EXCLUSIVE MAINTENANCE. In Maryland, a genetically modified pig’s heart was transplanted into a man. Professor Raphaël Meier, transplant surgeon, was there.
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Lhe surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center were busy this Friday, January 7, 2022 in Baltimore (United States). For eight hours, they did what they know how to do: a heart transplant. With the difference that, this time, it was not a question of transplanting the heart of a human on another, but that of a pig.
On the operating table, a 57-year-old man, David Bennett. Suffering from fatal heart disease, he was ineligible for organ donation and all treatment options had been exhausted to treat him. For him, it was pig transplant or death. Professor Raphaël Meier, transplant surgeon, witnessed the feat of his colleagues. He gives us his impressions exclusively and explains xenotransplantation …
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