Updated On: 24 September, 2023 12:50 PM IST | San Francisco | IANS
The 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive the historic transplant

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US surgeons have performed a second historic transplant of a pig heart into a patient with end-stage cardiovascular disease to save his life.
Both historic surgeries were performed by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) faculty at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).