Matthew Blackwell’s heart is being held together by the tissues of a pig and a cow.
In the three years Matthew has been alive, he has been through two open heart surgeries, one of them the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, which has only been performed a few times in the world.
With the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, Matthew’s right ventricle and aorta were patched up using a mixture of animal and human donor tissue, according to the Web site.
In the three years Matthew has been alive, he has been through two open heart surgeries, one of them the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, which has only been performed a few times in the world.
With the Norwood/Rastelli procedure, Matthew’s right ventricle and aorta were patched up using a mixture of animal and human donor tissue, according to the Web site.
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