David Bennett, 57, with terminal heart disease, underwent surgery on January 7 and became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart.
The first patient to receive a pig heart transplant He has died two months after that surgical intervention, as reported this Wednesday by the Medical Center of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maryland (USA)in charge of that historic operation.
David Bennett57 years old and with terminal heart disease, underwent surgery on January 7 at the aforementioned medical center and became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart.
As reported today by the hospital, Bennett died on Tuesday after his condition deteriorated several days ago. After doctors confirmed that she was not going to survive, they put her on hospice care, according to the statement from the Maryland College of Medicine.
The death occurred two months after a historic operation that was carried out successfully and that the same institution explained in January was “the only option available to the patient”since several hospitals had ruled out the possibility of doing a conventional transplant.
“It was either die or do this transplant. I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last option,” Bennett said then.
The members of the medical team said they were “devastated” by the loss of the patient, as the author of the transplant, Dr. Bartley P. Griffithwho has highlighted Bennett’s courage and desire to live.
For its part, Muhammad M Mohiuddindirector of the cardiothoracic program at this center, expressed his gratitude to the patient for his “historic role” in the advances in gene transplantation.
Source: Eitb
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