Man with a pig heart – level 2
14-01-2022 07:00
Doctors in Maryland, US, moved a pig heart into a human. The operation took seven hours, and doctors used a genetically-modified pig heart. There were similar operations in the past, but they were never successful.
Last week’s operation was successful because the patient’s body did not reject the heart immediately. The patient was doing well three days after the operation, but it was not possible to say if he would live or for how long.
The patient was a 57-year-old man from Maryland. The operation was his last chance because he was too sick to get a human heart. The operation was not a usual procedure, and doctors needed special permission to complete it.
Difficult words: genetically-modified (when scientists change the genetic information of a living thing or its body parts), reject (to not accept), permission (when someone allows someone else to do something).
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