Using hearts from genetically modified pigs to help patients waiting for transplants is a possibility in near future, claim scientists.
In controversial research at the United States national medical research agency NIH, a research group led by Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin transplanted the hearts of genetically engineered pigs into baboons' abdomens and kept one beating for 600 days, Sky News reported.
Patients Must Remain Physically Active While Waiting for Heart Transplant
Patients who remain physically active during the waiting period for a donor heart for heart transplant have greater chances of surviving the period, a study said.
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Professor Chris Mason from University College London said that it is just a matter of 15 or more years now to achieve the ultimate breakthrough in the study.
Source: ANI
Heart Transplant Patients Now Live 20 Years Longer Than Before
A new study has found how thanks to the improvements in the procedure's success rate, patients who have undergone heart transplantation are now living 20 years or more post surgery
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 Research Suggests Long-Term Survival Possible for Pediatric Heart Transplant PatientsA study says that infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery. | Advertisement
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New Record Set for Guinness Book's Heart Transplant Survival World Record
A British man has managed to get his name registered in the Guinness book of world records now that he is the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient
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