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The first man to receive a transplanted pig’s heart died of heart failure due to several factors, not organ rejection, leading the doctors involved in the trial to call it a success.
David Bennett, 57, received the genetically modified heart on Jan. 7 after the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization on New Year’s Eve.
Before the transplant, Bennett had been hospitalized for six weeks with a life-threatening arrhythmia and had been connected to a heart-lung bypass machine. He was in end-stage heart failure and didn’t qualify for a traditional heart transplant.
He died two months later.
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David Bennett, 57, received the genetically modified heart on Jan. 7 after the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization on New Year’s Eve.
Before the transplant, Bennett had been hospitalized for six weeks with a life-threatening arrhythmia and had been connected to a heart-lung bypass machine. He was in end-stage heart failure and didn’t qualify for a traditional heart transplant.
He died two months later.
First man to receive a transplanted pig heart died of heart failure, not rejection, encouraging doctors
Doctors involved in the University of Maryland Medicine said in a paper published last month that a “complex array of factors” caused heart failure.
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