It was a risk for all involved, but an experimental surgery is so far a success. Surgeons at the University of Maryland transplanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a person. David Bennett, a father and handyman from Maryland, had such severe heart disease that he didn’t qualify for a transplant. So when the medical team asked him to be their patient for this procedure, he agreed. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.
