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Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the work of the heart and lungs. ....
That s been transplanted into a living human. there s a lot of talk and effort into avoiding the rejection of the organ, and i know that s something that in your work, you ve had to focus on as well. the early signs are good, but how much confidence can be gleaned from the first two or three days that this is really going to hold? well, really, what the first two or three days does is it tells you whether the organ s functioning, and so far, this heart appears to be functioning pretty well, although the recipient is still receiving some additional support through a pump called ecmo, which is being gradually weaned off so that the pig heart can fully take over. right, so we do have to be realistic than of the prospects ....