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A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig

and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.

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[–] mightyfoolish 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Maryland team last year performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man.

What is this sentence? The word "another" implies either this man wasn't the first or that a "genetically altered pig" is legally considered dying man.

[–] Boddhisatva 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The man in the first four paragraphs of the article, Lawrence Faucette, is the second dying man to receive a genetically modified pig heart. The first dying man, referred to in your quote, only survived two months but the heart failed, possibly due to a virus in the heart that came from the pig.

[–] mightyfoolish 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for your explanation. I did not follow correctly.