David Bennett, 57, has been living for three days with a pig heart. Doctors transplanted the organ in a last ditch to save Bennett's life, who has been bedridden on a heart-lung bypass machine.
David Bennett, 57, is the first human to receive a pig heart as an organ transplant. Surgeons in Baltimore transplanted the pig heart on Friday and Bennett is said to be recovering and doing well, but it is too soon to know long-term effects.
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