<story><title>Pig heart transplant failed as its heart muscle cells died</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/pig-heart-transplant-failed-as-its-heart-muscle-cells-died/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>The point is that his heart failed, not some other organ, and while it was functional for a time, the surgeons had stated that it would be functional for longer.&lt;p&gt;While you can soften the failure by highlighting the patient&amp;#x27;s broad systemic issues, this is still a notable failure that will likely put a damper on future similar pig transplants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>The first human to human heart transplant failed even sooner and was considered wildly successful.  Edit: Even though the immunosuppressants ended up killing him.&lt;p&gt;7 weeks doesn’t sound like long, but a great many things needed to work for the patient to survive even 1 week.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pig heart transplant failed as its heart muscle cells died</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/pig-heart-transplant-failed-as-its-heart-muscle-cells-died/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>The point is that his heart failed, not some other organ, and while it was functional for a time, the surgeons had stated that it would be functional for longer.&lt;p&gt;While you can soften the failure by highlighting the patient&amp;#x27;s broad systemic issues, this is still a notable failure that will likely put a damper on future similar pig transplants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>&amp;gt;  that will likely put a damper on future similar pig transplants&lt;p&gt;I should hope not. Not everything works first time. Hopefully it gives data such that the next one works for 16 weeks, and the one after that for 3 months, until this is a standard source of transplant organs.</text></comment>