{"id":3901,"date":"2022-02-22T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:12:36","slug":"the-medical-miracle-of-a-pigs-heart-in-a-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/02\/22\/the-medical-miracle-of-a-pigs-heart-in-a-human-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Miracle of a Pig\u2019s Heart in a Human Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3901\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>In the early hours of January 7th, the cardiothoracic surgeon Bartley Griffith, unable to sleep, went to his kitchen to make coffee. It was about 2\u00a0<em>a<\/em>.<em>m<\/em>. His usual mug is tall, and he had to remove the stand from his Krups machine in order to fit it. \u201cNext thing I realized, I had coffee all over the floor. I had forgotten to put the cup under,\u201d Griffith told me. \u201cYou get a bit wiggly, a bit superstitious.\u201d He asked himself, \u201cDo you know what you\u2019re about to do?\u201d Griffith has forty years of surgical experience. But later that morning he was scheduled to perform a surgery that would be unusual even for him: the world\u2019s first transplantation of a pig\u2019s heart into a human. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/02\/28\/the-medical-miracle-of-a-pigs-heart-transplant-in-a-human-body\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3901\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading In the early hours of January 7th, the cardiothoracic surgeon Bartley Griffith, unable to sleep, went to his kitchen to make coffee. 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