57yo male receives first pig heart transplant

[Morgan]

On 1/7, transplant surgeons at the University of Maryland implanted a pig heart into a 57yo male.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-01-10/in-1st-us-surgeons-transplant-pig-heart-into-human-patient?context=amp

Would you stop eating bacon?

 

[lOOKnGO]

I had an uncle that received a pig valve replacement 30 years ago. He lived to be 100.

 

[03cobra#694]

Wild stuff for sure.

 

[Morgan]

I had an uncle that received a pig valve replacement 30 years ago. He lived to be 100.

Wow- I wouldn’t expect a transplant recipient to last that long.

 

[lOOKnGO]

I agree, it's crazy. He didn't eat meat.

 

[Fastback]

Wow- I wouldn’t expect a transplant recipient to last that long

I had an uncle that received a pig valve replacement 30 years ago. He lived to be 100.

My great Uncle had this done about the same time. Passed in his 90s. Crazy stuff for sure.

 

[Corbic]

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.

I was fascinated by this stuff as kid and often wanted to be a surgeon. Jarvak 7 artificial hearts, baboon hearts, pig livers.

Morbidly fascinated.

I remember in 7-8th grade coming across articles talking about the ethics and even a teacher said something to the effect of it "being immoral to raise animals just to take their organs".

It was at that time I began to hate leftists.


Dude in the article should have just got $50k together and had a nice vacation in China. He'd comeback 100%

 

[Fastback]

I was fascinated by this stuff as kid and often wanted to be a surgeon. Jarvak 7 artificial hearts, baboon hearts, pig livers.

Morbidly fascinated.

I remember in 7-8th grade coming across articles talking about the ethics and even a teacher said something to the effect of it "being immoral to raise animals just to take their organs".

It was at that time I began to hate leftists.


Dude in the article should have just got $50k together and had a nice vacation in China. He'd comeback 100%

Chinese hearts and Chinese parts! Both highly suspect!

 

[CompOrange04GT]

I agree, it's crazy. He didn't eat meat.

If you have animal parts keeping you living… would eating meat be cannibalism….

 

[03cobra#694]

If you have animal parts keeping you living… would eating meat be cannibalism….

You eat girl stuff right?

 

[CompOrange04GT]

You eat girl stuff right?

You mother ****er

 

[03cobra#694]

You mother ****er

Lol

 

[tones_RS3]

I had an uncle that received a pig valve replacement 30 years ago. He lived to be 100.

My dad has a pig's valve replacement as well. This was almost 9 years now.

 

[tistan]

I guess muslims won't be on the list.

 

[CobraBob]

That is wild. The medical field is wild today. Things happening that are simply amazing, medically.

 

[Machdup1]

Holy shit, Ricky Bobby was right:

“No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means?”

 

[Morgan]

I’d have to get a tattoo that reads “some pig” near the surgical site.

 

[mld54]

I have a friend that's had a pig valve for several years. The first time he burnt himself in the garage, I said "smells like someone's cooking bacon" it just seemed like the thing to do.

 

[afcobra01]

I bet that guy is a boar…

 

[Morgan]

I bet that guy is a boar…

Yes!!!