re: Man who received the second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says

I think you just go into it expecting that it won't buy you much and if it does bully. I'm in the lung transplant world and post transplant, assuming no complications, you are looking at anywhere from 2 - 3 weeks inpatient before discharge and then you are recovering for who knows how long after that as it is person dependent. I would almost think for all the costs and stress of the medical procedure that the six weeks may not have been worth it depending how post op life was.

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The Maryland team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man. David Bennett survived two months before that heart failed, for reasons that aren’t completely clear although signs of a pig virus later were found inside the organ. Lessons from that first experiment led to changes, including better virus testing, before the second attempt

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The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.

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Roll it back, guys.

These frickers won’t be happy until real life zombies are walking around fricking shite up

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six weeks may not have been worth it depending how post op life was.

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As someone that has survived accute heart failure and needing emergency surgery replace two valves in my heart, any time is worth it.