First Human Receives a Pig Heart Transplant

A Pig’s heart has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time in the world history.

Groundbreaking porcine heart transplant in a human may help large number of patients awaiting donor hearts

The first pig heart to be transplanted into a human is moved from a perfusion transport system to the patient during the groundbreaking procedure January 7, 2022.

In a first, Man receives a heart from a genetically altered pig

The breakthrough may lead one day to new supplies of animal organs for transplant into human patients.

The groundbreaking procedure offers hope to hundreds of thousands of other patients with failing organs.

A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs.