After the first transplant of a pig's heart on a human being at the beginning of January, the past of the man who benefited from it has just resurfaced.
Indeed, David Bennett had stabbed an individual seven times in the back in 1988, according to revelations from the
Washington Post
.
He allegedly stabbed this other person out of jealousy, after his wife sat on his lap at a party.
David Bennet, who received world's 1st pig heart transplant.#BBCnews pic.twitter.com/I6EmFLAHQZ
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Following this attack, the victim remained paralyzed in a wheelchair before finally dying of a heart attack in 2005. “My brother suffered for nineteen years as well as my whole family […] I think the doctors who operated on him should get all the praise for what they did, not David Bennett,” the victim's sister told the BBC.
"The moral obligation to provide life-saving care"
However, for health professionals who took part in this world first, this story is unrelated to their medical intervention.
“Every hospital has a moral obligation to provide vital care to all patients who pass through its doors,” the University of Maryland Medical Center told the American newspaper.
The operation was carried out on January 7 and showed for the first time that an animal heart could continue to function inside a human, without immediate rejection.
Other "xenografts" had been attempted in the past but the patients died immediately.
David Bennett, 57, had been declared ineligible to receive a human transplant.
It is now closely monitored by doctors to make sure the new organ is working properly.
“It was either death or this transplant.
I want to live.
I know it's pretty hit and miss, but that was my last option,” the Maryland resident said a day before his surgery.
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