Bartley P. Griffith

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Bartley P. Griffith
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Griffith in 2022
Born1949 (age 76–77)
Education Bucknell University (1970), [1] Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University (MD) (1974)
Known forFirst successful heart transplant (about 2 month survival) from a pig to a human patient; the pig had been genetically modified to work better
Medical career
Profession Surgeon
FieldProfessor of Cardiac Surgery
Institutions University of Maryland Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sub-specialties Cardiothoracic surgery
Heart transplantation
Lung transplantation
Cardiac surgery
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Griffith during a transplant operation

Bartley P. Griffith (born 1949) is an American heart surgeon. [2] He is the first person to successfully transplant a pig heart into a human being. [3]

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Pig heart transplants

Griffith joined Muhammad Mohiuddin's MD Xenoheart laboratory in 2018. Together, they were able to demonstrate that the heart of a genetically altered pig could support life when transplanted into an orthotopic position in the chest for up to 9 months. Griffith and Mohiuddin performed the first successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig heart to a human on January 7, 2022. [3] The recipient was 57-year-old David Bennett Sr. The procedure occurred at the University of Maryland Medical Center. [4] Due to complications, David Bennett Sr died on March 8, 2022. [5]

On September 20, 2023, Bartley P. Griffith performed his second pig heart transplant. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Going After Good". July 2022.
  2. ↑ "Griffith, Bartley". University of Maryland School of Medicine. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Deborah Kotz (January 10, 2022). "University of Maryland School of Medicine Faculty Scientists and Clinicians Perform Historic First Successful Transplant of Porcine Heart into Adult Human with End-Stage Heart Disease". University of Maryland School of Medicine. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant". BBC News. 11 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Debora Kotz (9 March 2022). "In Memoriam - David Bennett, Sr". University of Maryland Medical School. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever. CNN, 24 september 2023".


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