Cardiac Xenotransplantation

Heart Xenotransplantation: Current Issues and Perspectives

“…From a technical perspective, pig heart donor grafts offer such advantages as similarity with the human heart, relatively swift breeding, cost-efficiency, and fewer ethical barriers. 6 The construction of a modified donor heart is complicated, with the principal goal being the creation of chimeric animals. More specifically, gene-editing technologies combined with cross-breeding are employed to produce personalized organ generation.…”