He will have gained two months of life thanks to a pig.
On January 7, David Bennett was the first man to benefit from a xenograft, in other words the transplant of an organ belonging to another species.
He died at the age of 57 on March 8.
Before the operation, he suffered from a life-threatening arrhythmia and was only kept alive by an extracorporeal circulation device.
And his chances of survival were far too low to allow him to benefit from a conventional transplant.
A few days after the operation, David Bennett was able to sit up in bed and his new heart
was "beating wonderfully",
according to the teams of Dr Griffith, the surgeon at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who carried out the transplant.
But a little over a month and a half later, David Bennett's health is deteriorating.
Several edemas appear on the heart which can no longer function properly.
"David Bennett has severe heart failure and...
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