Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by anonymousiam on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#30081094)

The article says; "Almost 22 years later the first ever xenotransplant has finally taken place."

They seem to have forgotten about this baboon-to-human heart transplant from 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Fae

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by kdtop on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:26PM (#30081707)

Yeah, that caught my eye. I did a little research and the first xenotransplant of any kind was somewhere about 1838 -- of a cornea from a pig (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684730/)

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by dqv on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:06AM (#30087184)

A podcast called Straight Talk MD talks about several different weird transplants like this in this episode: https://pca.st/episode/1628074d-b415-477b-b1f6-81c9d81fc261 (For Fame or Money? The Dark Side of Ten Amazing Medical Firsts on Straight Talk MD)

Of note is the disastrous synthetic heart in the 90’s. I was surprised that such a thing was attempted.

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by wonderwonder on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:08PM (#30088184)

Optimally the synthetic kidney is more successful

https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/kidney-project-succes...

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by netfl0 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:31PM (#30081327)

This is friggin crazy.

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