Do doctors put pig's hearts in people?

Science & Mathematics by Anonymous 2018-06-24 17:01:46

Social Science

10 answers

Anonymous

Pig heart valves are occasionally used in humans.
Anonymous

Not the whole heart but we do use the valves. Tissue valves have significant advantages over mechanical valves; particularly decreasing or eliminating the need for long-term anticoagulant therapy.
Anonymous

Maybe recreationally, but not as a medical procedure. There is still work to be done to allow a non human organ to not be rejected by our bodies.
Anonymous

Not yet. The recipient's body would reject it as foreign tissue. I think there's some research into genetically engineered pigs whose organs could be transplanted into humans, but it might still be in the theoretical phase
Anonymous

Not whole hearts, sometimes the valves.
Anonymous

It was tried as an experiment in the past. It is not done now.
Anonymous

No
Anonymous

No, but the sometimes use valves from pigs hearts to replace malfunctioning valves in the human heart.
Anonymous

Yes. Pigs are oddly compatible with people, anatomically.
Anonymous

yes