CHICAGO: A United States man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later, the patient is doing well, his doctors reported on Monday .
“This was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis,” Dr Bartley Griffith, who surgically transplanted the pig heart into the patient, said in a statement. To move ahead with the experimental surgery, the university obtained an emergency authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration on New Year's Eve through its compassionate use program.
About 110,000 Americans are currently waiting for an organ transplant, and more than 6,000 patients die each year before getting one, according to organdonor.gov. Pigs have long been a tantalising source of potential transplants because their organs are so similar to human organs. A hog heart at the time of slaughter, for example, is about the size of an adult human heart.
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