US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
(Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

In a medical first, US doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life.

And a Maryland hospital said that he is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

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