First successful transplant of pig heart into human received by David Bennett Sr, Maryland

He just woke up from anesthesia from his heart transplant from Wish and Joe Biden is snapping a selfie with him. The look on his face is appropriate for the moment.

I just imagine he wakes up and starts squealing like a pig

You never woke up from anesthesia? You feel COMPLETE SHIT

Looks like he just found out he got a pig heart.

He's part pig now

Literal leg transplant

Mr Hands has entered the chat

HA!

More like a third leg transplant

Bruv 😂😂

Doctors and researchers really are on a different level

You mean they dont drink their own urine??

Narrator: it will not.

It got the human’s heart so don’t worry

No animals were harmed during the process.

Seasoning will be key

The internal organs are quite similar, researchers regularly use pigs as model organisms to study human disease. The problem with pig-human transplantation is that there is a sugar on the surface of pig cells that human immune systems recognize as foreign and cause the body to quickly reject the transplant in a matter of days.

This pig heart comes from a genetically modified pig where the genes for that sugar have been removed. The doctor who performed the surgery prepared by doing 50 pig to baboon heart transplants, and some of those have survived for more than 6 months.

This transplant was given compassionate use authorization because the patient was ineligible for a human heart transplant and would surely die without one soon.

As for the heart transplant, “He realizes the magnitude of what was done and he really realizes the importance of it,” David Bennett Jr. said. “He could not live, or he could last a day, or he could last a couple of days. I mean, we’re in the unknown at this point.”

It depends, some humans have similar DNA linked to pigs... like my ex-girlfriend for instance.

I guess its from one of those pigs genetically modified for this. They experimented on growing human organs in pigs specially for this. Some might say its against the nature and im sure there is allready a religious protest at this hospitals dors, but im glad it worked. That could save soooo many lives

Yes It is similar. Not similar as monkey anatomy but it still works. Organs of monkey cannot be used due to ethical concerns. So that pig is a farm animal and its meat is used widely, heart of a pig is a better option for transplant.

Other than the whole heart some times valves inside pigs heart can be seperated and used to replace human cardiac valves.

Main concern would be chronic rejection of the tissue as a result of chronic immune response of hosts body. That problem can be controlled by the use of anti immune drugs such as steroids.

Until we improve tissue engineering and produce native organs with artificial methods we have to use porcine organs and tissues.

All the healthcare workers including doctors respect animals used for scientific studies or medical purpose. That is why term "sacrified" is used for animals instead of "killed".

It's because it's not a pig heart, I mean it's not exactly the same hearth you can find in a butcher shop, it has human DNA and has been created on purpose throughout several procedures, so it's hard to say it's a "pig heart", it's more like a human hearth based on a pig heart, of course it sound less spectacular, but complex.

That was rhe first thing that came through my mind after seeing this.

South park predicting the future again, lmao

I want that 'un! He looked at me funny!

Literally the first thing i though of

Gotta get proof that he lived before the pig heart takes a piss.

Ship of Theseus

Lol it’s like the if I have an old axe, then replace the handle, then replace the head, is it still the same axe? I like these sort of lateral thinking puzzles, but it’s definitely crazier to be talking about an actual person ha

You're somewhat correct. They were only using heart valves from pigs before. This time they transplanted the full heart.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-man-recovering-after-breakthrough-pig-heart-transplant-2022-01-10/

You might not wanna get ahead of yourself there bud

There will lots of left over hearts with all the bacon consumed ;)

Haha, charade you are

Dragged down by the stone🗿

I mean in this scenario you would be dead without it so how uncomfortable would you really be in that casket?

Edit…

Well I guess you wouldn’t be comfy or uncomfortable you would be straight up neutral!

Then you chose dying and save the pigs heart for someone else. Good for you

I would more comfortable knowing an animal lost its life (especially since I eat meat) and I gained a heart rather than I received a heart due to a tragedy that someone’s family will never really heal from

I thoink it would get to me.

Would it help thinking/knowing that you have more microorganisms living in and on you than you have human cells?

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/human-microbiome/

The company edited out three genes in the pig’s DNA that would’ve caused a human body to reject the organ, while adding in six human genes that would cause the heart to be accepted.

It's grown in a pig, but in a sense not really a pig heart any more.

Are you actually being serious?

How do you know if you have a human or pig heart now? Does it feel human to you? What would a pig heart feel like?

Fascinating questions, we live in great times.

I would much prefer a kosher heart transplant.

Some would dare to say “happy as a pig”

For people with end-stage heart failure, a heart transplant is considered the "gold standard" treatment. A new study suggests that living for 15 to 20 years after a heart transplant is becoming the rule rather than the exception.

It would be as good as a human heart transplant if it lasted 15-20 years.

Human heart transplants only last a finite time anyway

Do pigs usually die from Heart Failure?

"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."

Emphasis added.

Basically, medical use is usually considered necessary (as opposed to cosmetics testing, for example), but general consensus I'd argue (we're an extremely diverse bunch. It is a broad ideology, after all, not a religion) is we should be pushing research towards cruelty free options as we move forward. Necessary evils might not have to be permanent as long as we don't settle here and call it "good enough". So I'd hope that while this is what we have for now, research for something that's kind towards all life and also doesn't support likely industrial animal factories is ideal.

Of course you'll get some people who believe all humans should die rather than use medicine or medical research, but in my experience that's just a loud and very small minority. Even PETA talks about and supports the necessity of medicine, though they aggressively push for better treatment of the animals and research to end the necessity in the first place.

Well, probably the same as they do about all modern medicine. They denounce it all, because it's all tested on animals. /s

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......

immediately opens Audible

They wouldn't tell you before the operation.

It’s disturbing, not sure how to feel towards it to be honest.

I can't speak for Halal, but Kosher refers specifically to consumption. You're not eating the heart...

Maybe they got a heart valve from a pig? That has been done for years, but I believe this is the very first whole pig heart to human transplant ever.

and that's only the beginning.