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The 57-year-old patient who survived two months after undergoing a landmark pig heart transplant <\/a>may have died of a pig virus, his transplant surgeon announced last month.<\/p>\n

In January, David Bennett, a handyman who suffered from heart failure, underwent a highly experimental surgery at the University of Maryland<\/a> medical center in which doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig\u2019s heart into him.<\/p>\n

Shortly after undergoing the surgery, Bennett died in March<\/a>. The hospital simply said his condition had worsened over the span of a few days but did not provide an exact cause of death.<\/p>\n

Last month, Bennett\u2019s transplant surgeon, Bartley Griffith, revealed that the pig\u2019s heart was infected with a porcine virus known as porcine cytomegalovirus, which may have contributed to Bennett\u2019s death. In a webinar hosted by the American Society of Transplantation on 20 April, Griffith described the virus and doctors\u2019 attempts to treat it, MIT Technology Review first reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 57-year-old patient who survived two months after undergoing a landmark pig heart transplant may have died of a pig virus, his transplant surgeon announced last month.In January, David Bennett, a handyman who suffered from heart failure, underwent a highly experimental surgery at the University of Maryland medical center in which doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig\u2019s heart into him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":121339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMan Who Received Landmark Pig Heart Transplant May Have Died of Pig Virus - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/man-who-received-landmark-pig-heart-transplant-may-have-died-of-pig-virus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man Who Received Landmark Pig Heart Transplant May Have Died of Pig Virus - 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