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First person to receive transplanted pig heart dies at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore

BALTIMORE — A Maryland man who was the first person to receive a transplanted pig heart died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Tribune News Service · Mar 10, 2022

First person to receive transplanted pig heart dies at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore

BALTIMORE — The first person to receive a transplanted pig heart died Tuesday, two months after the groundbreaking surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

Man, 57, who received first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

David Bennett was given a gene-edited pig’s heart in a pioneering transplant earlier this year

Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2022