The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from ...

Methods: The 6GE pigs were generated through iterative genome editing and F1 generation breeding. Genotyping, flow cytometry, and immunohistochemistry confirmed the knockout of GGTA1, CMAH, and ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

Objectives Differentiation between normal and abnormal features of vascular ageing is crucial, as the latter is associated with adverse outcomes. The normal aortic ageing process is accompanied by ...

Looney has now been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own, beating the previous record of 60 days that anyone has survived with an organ from another species. The Gadsen ...

Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Angus Nightingale Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, ...

In South Africa, demand for pork outweighs supply, necessitating the import of around 25 000t of pork meat every year. This provides local pig farmers with an opportunity to plug the gap. Pig farming ...