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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : May 19, 2014 7:27 PM IST
Scientists have said that using hearts from genetically modified pigs to help patients waiting for transplants is a possibility in near future. In controversial research at the United States national medical research agency NIH, a research group led by Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin transplanted the hearts of genetically engineered pigs into baboons' abdomens and kept one beating for 600 days, Sky News reported. Professor Chris Mason from University College London said that it is just a matter of 15 or more years now to achieve the ultimate breakthrough in the study. (Read :Lack of organ donors for heart transplant)
Heart transplants how are they done?
Recently a 19-year-old boy, Veer Anjaneyulu, a pharmacy student got a new lease on life. Suffering from a debilitating condition of the heart, Veer was left feeling constantly breathless, weak and with severe swelling all over his body. He says that he had lost all hope, until doctors at the Hyderabad based Apollo Health City performed a heart transplant on him.
Veer was suffering from a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease where the muscles of the heart are severely affected leaving the patient with an extremely weak and overworked organ. In Veer's case medication did not help and he urgently needed a heart transplant. (Read more on heart transplant)
With inputs from ANI
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