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Swedish Company’s Novel Device At The Heart Of Milestone Transplant Surgery

 
• By Brian Bossetta

An organ preservation system from Swedish medical technology company XVIVO played a key role in the first successful transplant of a pig heart into a human patient.

XVIVO HEARTBOX
• Source: XVIVO

When surgeons at the University of Maryland School of Medicine successfully implanted a donor heart into David Bennett, they had not only given hope to the 57-year-old-terminally ill patient, but to transplant candidates everywhere waiting to hear that a matching organ has been found.

What’s different about Bennett’s surgery, however, and why it brings such optimism, is that the donor heart that gave him a second chance didn’t come from another human, but a...

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