US docs transplant genetically modified pig’s heart into human
Chidanand.Rajghatta@timesgroup.com
12.01.2022
Washington: In what was claimed to be the first-of-itskind surgery in the world, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine outside Washington DC have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57-year-old patient with terminal illness.
The patient, Maryland resident David Bennett, is doing well three days after the surgery, the university’s medical center said on Monday, as doctors who performed the operation revealed the transplanted heart was working normally and creating the pulse and pressure associated with the human heart. The surgery took place on Friday and took about eight hours.
A mix of regret and happiness for Dr Baruah
Dr Dhani Ram Baruah, 72, the maverick surgeon from Assam who was held 25 years ago after he claimed to have kept a terminally ill patient alive for seven days on a pig’s heart and lungs, can no longer speak coherently because of an illness, reports Prabin Kalita. But he remembers, with a mix of regret and happiness, the controversial journey of his “medical breakthrough”. On getting the US news, he could barely suppress a smile, aide Dr Geeta said.
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