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Newer heart transplant method could allow more patients a chance at lifesaving surgery

June 8, 2023
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It’s…

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

January 11, 2022
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(AP) – In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s…

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Newer heart transplant method could allow more patients a chance at lifesaving surgery

In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

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