In January, a 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease received the first successful transplant of a ..... s heart into a human being, a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs.

2023

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In January, a 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease received the first successful transplant of a ____ ‘s heart into a human being, a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs.

A	ape
B	mouse
C	pig
D	horse

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The historic xenotransplant surgery was conducted on January 7, 2022, by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) faculty at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), together known as the University of Maryland Medicine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first transplant On the night of 2/3 December 1967, Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human orthotopic heart transplant in his patient, Louis Washkansky.

Detailed explanation-3: -The world’s first porcine-to-human heart transplantation was performed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD, USA), where a genetically modified pig heart was successfully transplanted into a 57-year-old man in the end stage of heart disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first man to receive a transplanted pig’s heart died of heart failure due to several factors, not organ rejection, leading the doctors involved in the trial to call it a success. David Bennett, 57, received the genetically modified heart on Jan.

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