The risk of cardiovascular diseases has increased globally, making it one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In serious conditions like heart attack and cardiac arrest, if the patient does not get timely treatment, there is a risk of death. In severe cases of heart disease, a heart transplant may also be required. In one such case, a team of doctors has successfully transplanted the heart of an animal into a human being.
The team of doctors is very optimistic about this heart transplantation done on 58-year-old patient Lawrence Fawcett, they hope that the animal's heart will work better in humans too.
According to media reports, experts from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the United States have implanted a genetically modified pig heart in the patient. After the surgery, the patient's condition remains stable, currently, there is no complication. Doctors hope that the pig's modified heart will work better in humans too. Let us know how the heart of animals works in humans.
This is the second case of a pig heart transplant
Surgeons have transplanted a genetically altered pig heart into a man suffering from heart disease who had no other hope of treatment, the University of Maryland Medical Center reported Friday.
The thing to note here is that this is the second case of transplanting an animal heart into a human. Earlier, a 57-year-old man was also transplanted with a pig's heart, although he died after two months. In this second case, doctors say that this time we have better hope, the situation now remains quite promising.
What do doctors say?
In the recent case, patient Lawrence Fawcett also received a pig heart transplant from Dr. Bartley Griffith of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who had previously performed the transplant on the patient. In the first case, the patient died due to multiple complications after the transplant, including infection with a virus that infects pigs.
Dr. Bartley says, for the second time all necessary precautions have been taken in this case, we hope that this time there will be no infection or any kind of complication. Lawrence's condition is very good after surgery.
According to media reports, Lawrence was suffering from incurable heart disease and other complex medical conditions, for which heart transplantation was the only treatment.
Xenotransplantation science hopes to save millions of lives
What is worth noting here is that in recent years, xenotransplantation science has made great progress with gene editing and cloning techniques, through which animal organs are being modified in such a way that the human immune system can reject them without any harm. Accept additional feedback. However, this effort is still in its initial stages. Scientists hope that the success of this technology will give new hope to the lives of more than a million Americans who have to wait a long time for organ transplantation.
In most cases, patients need a kidney, but less than 25,000 kidney transplants are performed every year and thousands of people are forced to die on the waiting list.
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