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The most successful case to date of a pig organ being transplanted into a human occurred back in January, when specialists at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore transplanted a modified pig heart into 57-year-old David Bennett. The FDA approved the heart transplant transplant through an emergency authorization typically reserved for experimental procedures seen as a patient’s last chance at survival. Bennett did die of heart failure two months later.#pigheart

The modified pig heart that was transplanted into 57-year-old heart failure patient David Bennett at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore in January 2022. Image courtesy of the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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