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CTOnews.com, Oct. 21, according to the Associated Press local time today, a month later, the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the United States announced the status of the world's second pig heart transplant patient.

The 58-year-old man is still struggling to recover from rejection a month after he underwent surgery on September 20, the report said. The pictures provided by the hospital show that the physiotherapist is encouraging him to smile while assisting him with pedal exercises to restore his strength. "it will be difficult, but I will try to overcome it," the patient said. "

CTOnews.com previously reported that the University of Maryland Medical Center has so far been responsible for participating in the world's first and second pig heart transplant. The patient who underwent the operation received the pig heart transplant because he suffered from advanced heart disease, as well as complications of peripheral vascular disease and internal bleeding, which did not meet the requirements for traditional heart transplantation.

Shortly after the operation was completed, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced that the patient was now able to breathe on his own and that his heart was working well without any assistance.

In January last year, a team from the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed the world's first genetically modified pig heart transplant on a male patient with terminal heart disease. The patient responded well one week after the transplant and there was no acute rejection. The patient was able to detach from ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) and began to walk on the ground one day ago. However, his condition suddenly deteriorated in early March of that year and eventually passed away.

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