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2. Pig heart successfully transplanted into human for first time

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   In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022.

3. Their loved ones died after receiving pig organ transplants ...

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   She had heart and kidney failure, so her surgery was more complicated than the others: Doctors implanted a mechanical heart pump eight days before the pig kidney. After the surgery, Pisano seemed ...

4. Valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Valve replacement surgery is the replacement of one or more of the heart valves with either an artificial heart valve or a bioprosthesis (homograft from human tissue or xenograft e.g. from pig). It is an alternative to valve repair .

5. Tissue engineering of heart valves - Wikipedia

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   Decellularized tricuspid biological heart valve. Biological scaffolds can be created from human donor tissue or from animals; however, animal tissue is often more popular since it is more widely accessible and more plentiful. [10] Xenograft, from a donor of a different species from the recipient, heart valves can be from either pigs, cows, or ...

6. Decellularization of porcine heart valve - Wikipedia

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   Decellularization of porcine heart valves is the removal of cells along with antigenic cellular elements [1] by either physical or chemical decellularization of the tissue. [2] This decellularized valve tissue provides a scaffold with the remaining extracellular matrix (ECM) that can then be used for tissue engineering and valve replacement in ...

7. A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain ...

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   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 ...

8. Transplantable organs and tissues - Wikipedia

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   Biological valves are valves of animals, like pigs, which undergo several chemical procedures in order to make them suitable for implantation in the human heart. The porcine (or pig) heart is most similar to the human heart, and therefore represents the best anatomical fit for replacement. Implantation of a porcine valve is a type of ...

9. Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant ...

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   Lawrence Faucette, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart in a transplant, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure. The University of Maryland Medical ...