On June 4, 65438, local time in the United States, the University of Maryland announced that medical experts had performed a heart transplant operation for a male heart patient in the United States, which was the first in the world, and his condition was stable three days after the operation. According to reports, this patient is a 57-year-old patient with special heart disease. If the heart transplant operation is not carried out urgently, the patient's life may come to an end, but the heart transplant operation needs a suitable heart, and now the supply of the heart is very tight, so this patient can only apply to the state for authorization for animal heart transplant.

This heart is a substitute specially cultivated by scientists for heart patients, and it is an organ suitable for human use through genetic modification. This is why we can have a heart transplant, which is also the first 1 animal organ transplant in the world.

Why do you want an animal organ transplant?

First of all, the proportion of heart disease patients in the population is relatively high, and there are few suitable hearts. Most people often die before a suitable heart can replace them. In order to save the lives of heart patients. Scientists decided to cultivate suitable human organs through animal hearts and genetic modification technology. When heart patients need transplantation, they can transplant the cultivated animal organs into human body to play the role of heart without waiting for a suitable heart.

Animal heart transplantation has been in the experimental stage and has not yet entered the clinical stage. This operation is only the first in the world. According to the results and feedback after the experiment, the patient is all right. It can be said that the operation is very successful now, and it has also dispelled many people's doubts about animal organs. Judging from the development of animal organ culture process, more animal organs may be cultivated for human body in the future, which is also the direction of future development. If this technology can be applied to clinic, it will bring good news to more patients.