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In A First, Surgeons Transplant Pig Heart Into Human Patient
US doctors made history for the first time by transplanting a pig’s heart after a genetic mutation in a 57-year-old patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were granted a special dispensation