This week, a 58-year-old patient became the second person in the world to have a genetically modified pig heart implanted in his body, in an example.

 

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Edited by| Paul Mitchel

 

Health  section -  CJ journalist

 

Maryland – September,27,2023  

 

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New to a very active research field in recent years.

A similar operation was conducted in 2022 at the same institution, the University of Maryland Medical School in the United States.

The university wrote in a statement Friday that the then patient, David Bennett, died about two months after the operation "due to several factors,

including poor health "before the transplant.

Transplants of animal organs in humans' bodies can provide a solution to the chronic shortage of organ donors. There are

More than 100 Americans are currently on the waiting list for organ transplants.

The new operation took place on September 20 on Lawrence Fawcett, a retired soldier suffering from a serious heart disease.

It would cause inevitable death.

Doctors considered this patient ineligible to undergo a human heart transplant, and thus this solution represents the "

for him, according to the statement.

He said before the operation, according to the same source, "at least now I have hope and a chance" of survival.

"We have no expectations other than to spend more time together," his wife said, "to enjoy" simple things like sitting down.

on the balcony in front of the house and have coffee together ".

Doctors said Lawrence Fawcett was currently breathing alone, and his new heart was doing well without outside help.

The patient takes immunosuppressive treatments, as well as "new antibody therapy", to avoid rejection of the transplanted organ.

Transplants of this type are challenging because the recipient's immune system tends to address the strange organ. And that's why

Pigs are genetically modified to reduce this risk as well.

Recently, transplants of genetically modified pigs were performed on deceased patients.

The Institute of Transplantation at NY-U Langone University Hospital in New York announced this month that it had successfully operated a college

A pig with a deceased person for two months, which is a standard duration.

 

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