Pig to human heart transplants ‘possible within 3 years’
06PM [Updated: Mon Aug 19, 2019 02:06PM ]/ The file photo shows a team of anesthesiologists preparing a patient for the first open-heart surgery in Mali. (Photo by AFP)/ Adapted pig hearts could be transplanted into patients within three years, according to a report citing the surgeon who pioneered heart transplantation in the UK. On the 40th anniversary of the first successful heart transplant, Sir Terence English told The Sunday Telegraph that his protege from that operation would try to replace a human kidney with a pig’s this year. “If ...
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