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VIDEO: Man receives genetically-modified heart in 1st successful transplant of its time
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  • January 11, 2022

Man receives pig heart in 1st successful transplant of its kind

Surgeons at the University of Maryland successfully transplanted a modified pig heart into a patient with end-stage heart disease in a first-of-its-kind procedure.

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