US medical team performs pig heart transplant genetically modified to patients with heart disease successfully for the first time in the world It is believed to be good news to solve the organ shortage crisis.
On January 11, 1965, a team of surgeons from the University of Maryland, USA performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant. This is good news that may be able to solve the shortage of organ donors.
On December 31, 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a team of doctors to perform transplant surgery. Genetically modified pig heart to Mr. David Bennett, 57, who is suffering from severe cardiac arrhythmias. and cannot undergo conventional heart transplant surgery. Bennett has now undergone surgery three days ago and is still feeling normal. The doctor will closely monitor the symptoms.
“I had the choice of just dying or attending this graft. and I want to live It might have been less hopeful. But it was the last option I had.” Bennett said in a statement from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Bartley Griffith, Surgeon, Faculty of Medicine The University of Maryland said the medical team had been studying and practicing pig heart transplants in non-human recipients for more than five years and had performed the surgery with the utmost care. Currently, there are not enough donated organs to meet the number of patients waiting for a transplant. This success might be good news as a new option for patients in the future.
However, the transplantation of different species of organs (Xenotransplantation) has been studied and developed continuously. To address the growing demand for organ transplants, FDA data shows that there are patients waiting for organ transplants. average 10 deaths per day
Previously, Harvard University Successful use of pig and bovine tissue in heart valve replacement surgery Which will last more than 15 years without the need to take anticoagulants unlike metal prosthetic heart valves or at New York University which is the world’s first human kidney transplant surgery rather, it is a transplant in a brain-dead patient.
Pictured: AFP, source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/surgeons-perform-first-successful-transplant-pig-heart-human-patient-rcna11687
Read related news.
– Male and female twins were born on December 31, 15 minutes apart. They were born in different years.
– Indonesian man claims to have been hired for vaccination, now has 16 injections
– Japanese Grandmother Oldest person in the world celebrates 119 birthday
.
