In a medical first, US surgeons transplanted a pig heart into a human patient, and say he is doing well three days after the extremely experimental operation.

While it’s too soon to tell if the surgery will work, it’s the first-of-its-kind in a decades-long quest to one day use animal organs to save human life.

Doctors at the Maryland hospital where the patient underwent surgery say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.

The patient, David Bennett, 57, knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son told The Associated Press.

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