David Bennett, the first patient to receive a pig heart transplant, dies

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image source, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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Surgeon Bartley P Griffith with his patient David Bennett shortly following the pig heart transplant.

The first person in the world to receive a genetically modified heart from a pig by transplant has died.

David Bennett, who suffered from terminal heart disease, survived two months following surgery in the United States.

But his condition began to deteriorate several days agoexplained his doctors in Baltimore City, and the 58-year-old patient died on March 8.

Bennett knew of the risks associated with the surgery, acknowledging before the procedure that it was “a shot in the dark.”

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