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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sravasti Dasgupta

Pig heart transplant recipient died of heart failure

University of Maryland School of Medicine

The death of the man who received a groundbreaking pig heart transplant this year occurred from heart failure, concluded doctors at the University of Maryland, where the experimental surgery was performed.

David Bennett, 57, had undergone the experimental surgery in January. During the procedure, doctors had replaced his heart with one from a gene-edited pig.

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