The surgeon who performed the operation has made a new point regarding the death of the world’s first person to receive a pig heart transplant in the United States.
Doctors at the Maryland Medical Center, where the surgery was performed, said the cause of death was not immediately clear.
But now experts claim that the first person in the world to get a pig’s heart has died, possibly due to a heart virus.
The chief surgeon behind the operation, Dr Bartley Griffith, has indicated that the heart may be infected with the porphyse cytomegalovirus.
History Money: The world’s first man to successfully implant an animal heart
According to MIT Technology Review Magazine, Dr. Griffith told a webinar on April 20 that his team was beginning to try to understand why David Bennett had died. According to the surgeon, the virus may have played a role. Did it all
The only person in the world to have an animal heart transplant died
David Bennett, 57, of Maryland, USA, died on March 8, two months after he was diagnosed with a pig’s genetically modified heart.