US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

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8 pointsmudro_zboris3 comments

Kinda sad this didn't work out.

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In cases like this, surviving 2 weeks means it worked out, if not for that individual, but for future individuals. Same thing happened with first heart transplant (18 days). I guess you can call it a dancing bear result; the bear dances, not that it dances well.

>Same thing happened with first heart transplant (18 days).

Thanks for the context. Looks like we are making some small but important progress.

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