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Insider Paper<\/a> – January 10, 2022<\/p>\n US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a human<\/a> patient, a first of its kind procedure, the University of Maryland Medical School said Monday.<\/p>\n The surgery took place Friday, and demonstrates for the first time that an animal hear<\/a>t can survive in a human without immediate rejection, the medical school said in a statement.<\/p>\n The patient, David Bennett, had been deemed ineligible for human transplant.<\/p>\n The 57-year-old Maryland resident is being carefully<\/a> monitored to determine how the new organ performs.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was either die or do this transplant. I want to live. I know it\u2019s a shot in the dark, but it\u2019s my last choice,\u201d he said a day before the surgery.<\/p>\n Bennett, who has spent the last several months bedridden on a life support machine, added: \u201cI look forward to getting out of bed after I recover.\u201d<\/p>\n The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization<\/a> for the surgery on New Year\u2019s Eve, as a last ditch effort for a patient who was unsuitable for conventional transplant.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis,\u201d said\u00a0Bartley Griffith, who surgically transplanted the pig heart.<\/p>\n https:\/\/insiderpaper.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Insider Paper – January 10, 2022 US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a human patient, a first of its kind procedure, the University of Maryland Medical School said Monday. The surgery took place Friday, and demonstrates for the first time that an animal heart can survive in a … Continue reading US surgeons successfully implant pig heart in human: statement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[16416,16414,2251,16415,16413,16417],"class_list":["post-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-bartley-griffith","tag-david-bennett","tag-fda","tag-organ-transplant","tag-surgery","tag-surgically-transplanted-the-pig-heart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5lO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20574,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions\/20574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}